Gabriel Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, Southern Sudanese "Lost Boys" in the U.S., were forced to flee Sudan as children when their villages were attacked in 1987, finding safety for a time in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until needing to flee once more, this time to Kakuma camp in Kenya. Since leaving Sudan, they have scarcely been able to obtain news about their villages or families.
Lost and Found in Sudan: a video by Jen Marlowe
Published February 27, 2009
Koor Garang was a lost boy: one of thousands of orphaned boys who came to the US from Sudan following a decades-long civil war. Now a nursing student living in the US, Koor returns to southern Sudan to find his family and to use his medical training to help his fellow countrymen.
Directed by Jen Marlowe
Produced in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
This video originally aired on Current TV. It is also available on Current TV's website.
For more about this story, visit South Sudan: Rebuilding HopeProject
Materials for teachers and students ahead of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's visit.
A documentary by Chicago students working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Free Spirit Media.
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Jen Marlowe traveled to Darfur with two colleagues to make the documentary Darfur Diaries: Message from Home. Her second feature length film is the award-winning Rebuilding Hope: Sudan's Lost Boys...
