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Article: `Lost Boys' return to Sudan to help rebuild.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- August 12, 2005
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Byline: Oscar Avila
CHICAGO _ Survival wasn't enough for the "Lost Boys," thousands of youths who fled Sudan in the 1980s without their parents and endured a perilous two-month trek to reach refugee camps.
At the Kakuma camp in Kenya, they began rebuilding their lives, creating informal networks that raised money to buy pencils, books, whatever it took to help one of their own.
Likewise, survival wasn't enough when they began arriving in the United States in the late 1990s, part of one of the United States' most high-profile resettlement efforts. The officials who aided them crossed their fingers that the young men would find jobs and adjust ...