Packets Remind Lost Boys of War-Torn Childhood in Sudan

(AJC) — When Deng-Athoi Galuak walked into the refugee camp in Ethiopia, he was a thinned-out, raggedy kid who had survived the bombing of his village, three months of walking, two bouts of malaria, starvation and predation by wolves and lions.  Days ago, thanks to some newly available records, Galuak saw, for the first time, a 22-year-old photo of himself in that refugee camp. He was only 6 or 7. “At first, it didn’t look like me, then I looked again,” said Galuak, now 29 and living in Lilburn. “I cried.”

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