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Article: 'Lost Boys' celebrate success
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2004
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Their stories are still hard to fathom: the trek across hostile
terrain, the young boys who died en route, the refugee years spent
without parents. But many of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan who have
resettled in the Salt Lake area are finding their way now -- and are
attending college in record numbers.
The Salt Lake area has the largest population of Lost Boys
enrolled in higher education in the United States, says Abraham Gai,
president of the Sudanese Student Association of Salt Lake Community
College. Currently there are about 90 Lost Boys, and a few Lost
Girls, attending local colleges and universities, he says.
The association is presenting "Lost Boys Overcoming Trauma:
Reflections on and ...