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In 1983, war broke out in Sudan. Northern Sudanese invaded the South and most men and boys who were not caught in the cross-fire had to migrate to neighboring countries in order to avoid becoming soldiers or slaves to the Northerners. 34,000 Sudanese orphan boys were numbered on the United Nation's record of members who reached the Ethiopian camp. After spending some time there, civil conflict in Ethiopia during 1991 forced these boys to migrate again, this time through Sudan and into Kenya.


Sudanese youth leaders learn FAMA Pedagogy in a Literacy Program focused on Conflict Resolution.

Despite the ongoing war in Sudan, many boys tried to repatriate and find their families. Others, knowing that their families had already perished or that their villages were decimated, crossed the mighty Nile river (where many drowned) and migrated to Northern Kenya to a UN's Kakuma Refugee Camp. When the UN took inventory and tried to identify name matches with those on the original list in Ethiopia, only 17,000 of the orphan boys were accounted for.

Today, these Sudanese young men (sometimes referred to as "Lost Boys") are scattered across the globe and are a growing voice in the Sudanese Diaspora. CDN worked with many of these boys during their resettlement process in the USA (in Vermont, Nebraska, Utah, New York, and Arizona). Once they were able to get on their feet, several of these Dinka men (now in their early 20s) aggregated resources and asked CDN to help them provide support to their brothers and tribesmen in South Sudan.




CDN Consultants Tiffany Ivins and Natasha Ivins established linkages with ProLiteracy Worldwide, who agreed to sponsor a local NGO in Kakuma, Kenya and one in Mapel, South Sudan. ProLiteracy agreed to partner with these groups on the condition that CDN first provide capacity building and train literacy facilitators how to use a new Conflict Resolution Manual.

There was eager interest in this initiative and over 50 Southern Sudanese trainers joined the literacy training in South Sudan while over 100 trainers attended the training in Kakuma Refugee Camp. Today, these two groups are training more trainers and sharing critical educational content to other Sudanese villagers.
 
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