44 min
Ep. 17: One of the Lost Girls: From South Sudan to Kenya to the United States (ft. Tabitha) The Push-Pull Factor
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- Personal Journals
There were thousands of victims of the civil war that emerged in Sudan in the 1900s and many of them were young children who marched alone, thousands of miles, before arriving at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya that had a massive young population. The UNHCR quickly got involved and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State approximately 3,600 young refugees were brought to cities all over the United States.
While this generation started to gain notoriety as the “Lost Boys of [South] Sudan” there were still an unrepresented group that got overlooked in the popular consciousness but was still part of the equation - The Lost Girls of Sudan. Of these 3,600 refugees less than 100 of them were women and one of them is speaking with us today.
Tabitha, photographer and pre-school teacher, earnestly shares her journey as one of the 89 Lost Girls of Sudan who found their way in the United States. Her cheerful demeanor and matter-of-fact recollection brings you on a story from her upbringing in Kakuma to her first arrival in Mississippi - which grew into quite a life where she has now married one of the Lost Boys of Sudan and currently resides in Houston. We have quite the conversation which stems culture, food, parenting and the trials and tribulations of life itself - you can’t miss this one!
Sources:
https://www.rescue.org/article/lost-boys-sudan
https://www.rotary.org/en/lost-girls-south-sudan
Check us out on more platforms:
https://pushpullfactor.com/
https://twitter.com/pushpullfactor
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There were thousands of victims of the civil war that emerged in Sudan in the 1900s and many of them were young children who marched alone, thousands of miles, before arriving at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya that had a massive young population. The UNHCR quickly got involved and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State approximately 3,600 young refugees were brought to cities all over the United States.
While this generation started to gain notoriety as the “Lost Boys of [South] Sudan” there were still an unrepresented group that got overlooked in the popular consciousness but was still part of the equation - The Lost Girls of Sudan. Of these 3,600 refugees less than 100 of them were women and one of them is speaking with us today.
Tabitha, photographer and pre-school teacher, earnestly shares her journey as one of the 89 Lost Girls of Sudan who found their way in the United States. Her cheerful demeanor and matter-of-fact recollection brings you on a story from her upbringing in Kakuma to her first arrival in Mississippi - which grew into quite a life where she has now married one of the Lost Boys of Sudan and currently resides in Houston. We have quite the conversation which stems culture, food, parenting and the trials and tribulations of life itself - you can’t miss this one!
Sources:
https://www.rescue.org/article/lost-boys-sudan
https://www.rotary.org/en/lost-girls-south-sudan
Check us out on more platforms:
https://pushpullfactor.com/
https://twitter.com/pushpullfactor
https://www.instagram.com/pushpullfactor/
44 min