All language subtitles for God.Grew.Tired.Of.Us.2006.1080p.WEBRip.x265-RARBG

The war between North and South,

that is Sudan,

started in 1983.

Two million people lost
their lives due to that war--

civil war.

I left when I was six.

The vision, or the picture of

Southern Sudan is

kind of getting away from me.

It's going away from my mind.

This, my Mother Homeland,

was beautiful
and I can compare it to nothing.

The climate was good,
the life was nice.

We have a lot of food
throughout the year--

vegetables, fruits, everything.

And it was very rich soil.

My father was a farmer,
cattle keeper,

and I used to tend
my cattle with my friends.

In the afternoon,
we take them to the riverbank

so they can drink water.

But when the war came to Sudan,

we lost all those things.

So then we run away.

I'm proud to be a Sudanese.

It is in my mind that

you should be proud
of who you are.

So I should be proud
of being born in Sudan.

But I cannot go to Sudan
if the war is still.

That's the first thing.

If the war is still,
I cannot go to Sudan.

When I left Sudan,

it was a time that war
broke out in our village.

People come at night with guns

and if you are not Muslim,
they can kill you.

If there is peace in Sudan,
I will come.

But if no peace,
I will not come to Sudan.

I will not come to Sudan because

people are being shot.

They shoot small people like us.

We don't know--

they have just
killed our parents.

Like my father
has died at that time

when I first
go through Ethiopia,
when we were running.

We were in cattle camp.

They came and shoot my father

which mean if I go now to Sudan,
they can kill me again.

Like my mother now, I don't know
where she is with her kids.

Maybe they have died. Imagine.

So, I cannot go to Sudan again.

The first thing was
that people were being shot.

Many people have been killed.

Women who were around there
with us were being raped.

Boys like us have been enslaved,

others were brutally killed.

In the year 1987

the government announced

to kill all male child
in the South

regardless of the age.

If you are found
and you are a boy,

they can just take you--
maybe 12 years old--

they can just cut you.

They can even shoot you,

or they can even take a needle--

they come and make your testes,
you know--

they just make a hole
in your testes.

They want to make you sterile
when you grow up.

When our village was attacked

by Muslim government troops

at night

I took my own way

and my mom, my dad,
they took their own way.

I was in a dilemma.

Have they died?

Are they still alive?

All the small boy children

they were putting
in the house in my place

and they locked the houses
and burned the houses.

All children
burned in their houses.

So we were told by the elders
that all children were burned
in their houses.

All men who
are living there are dead,

except people
who run to the bush.

So, we can't go back...

to the village.

After the attack
on our villages we fled.

Children without parents.

The number was 27,000.

Young men...

from 10 to five years old.

My uncle was 11 then.

He was the oldest.

He took care of three of us.

That was the family.

How long we should walk?

We can walk for 100 years.

We can walk for two years.

I don't know
how long we can walk.

We ran without anything--

anything to eat.

It was so difficult,
many people were starving.

We didn't have water to drink,

so what happened is
we are eating the mud

or somebody have to urinate

so that you drink the urine.

Children are crying.

Me, I also cry too,

but when I cry
there's no tears coming--

coming out of my eyes.

My name is Daniel Abul Pach.

I've spent
10 years now in Kenya.

I've grown very skinny around
because of life here.

Sometimes even more,

sometimes no food for some days.

almost sometimes months,
you know.

It's a very horrible life.

My stomach is very small now.

It's very small.

I want to be like this.

You know, our tradition,

if you are found
cooking like this

your friend will say, "No,
I don't want you again
because you are a cooker.

You know, you cook."

If you cook,
a lady will say-- say,

"Ah, why should I go
with a man who cook?"

That's not our tradition.

You know, cooking is for ladies,

so I'm hiding so that
they will not see me
and make fun of me.

You can see a fence there.

They cannot see me at all.

So when I go outside there

I pretend that I'm not cooking.

"Black Days"
are those extra days

when the food is finished

and we have no fire to build.

So we call this place
a White House because

when we are in these
extra days with no food

and there's no fire around,

we gather here
to entertain ourself

so that it should not be
black everywhere

and we entertain ourself
so that we laugh a bit

and make the time goes.

When I came into Kakuma

I didn't have that my time
to stay for 10 years.

I was saying,
"Sudan is going to be okay

maybe within one month
or two weeks."

I thought I would be
back to Sudan soon.

That was my imagination.

We are like prisoners

because since 1992
to almost 10 years in one place.

See, it's very bad.

I myself--
I don't know where I am

and where I am
supposed to be in future.

We have no parents,

we have no anybody
who is going to take care of us.

I can sometimes go crazy.

I can sometimes
think of killing myself.

Life in Kakuma here is just

that you are
waiting for your grave.

I'm going to live
in Philadelphia.

Yeah. Oh, no no.
Pennsylvania is a country,

so which means the capital city
of it is Philadelphia.

Pittsburgh.

Yeah, Pittsburgh.
I'm going to live in Pittsburgh.

I've seen that my name

is that I'm going to New York.

And I have heard
that New York is

just a bit cold anyway.

Do people go to the river
with containers

to draw water for themself?

For bathing.
If you want to take bathing.

There is something
called apartment.

I've never heard,
met and I've never seen it.

Shower?

How does it look like?

Shower?

I've never used electricity,

so I imagine that
it is really very hard
for me to do that.

In the United States we heard
that there is only one wife.

These things
are going to affect us.

Today will be the end
of 10 years in Kenya, actually.

I didn't sleep last night
and even today.

I will not meet again
with my friends

so it's kind of
upsetting to me, really.

You know,
a bit happy, a bit sad.

Even though we go
to the United States now

I will not be comfortable
when my brother

whom I have escaped
from my mother homeland
together with-- him

left behind.

We came in 1992 in this group

so now I want to hand it over,

my secretarial duties,
to one of my colleagues

who has now become a former--

will become a new secretary

as I will be leaving
on the 5th August this year.

This gift is being given
by our secretary

because our Parliament
is still-- will be remain
the way we act already

and it will be still maintained.

So I will start to give
the prize to the small children
right now.

You are welcome, please.

The ones going away

and leaving the Dinka behind

are going to forget us
back in the camp.

One day when we meet again

and you won't
pay attention to us

I will sing this song

to remind you that we have
had hardship together.

It goes like...

♪ Good night, black cow ♪

♪ Have you fallen asleep?
Have you fallen asleep? ♪

♪ No, I'm still awake ♪

♪ I'm still awake
and I'm waiting. ♪

If all you guys forget,
we will not be happy.

Make sure your letters
reach us in the camp.

You guys go with this song

and sing this wherever you are

and we will
sing it here in Africa.

♪ Good night, black cow,
good night, black cow. ♪

Our transit for U.S.A.
will start here.

We have Kenya here.

So tomorrow very early,
or not very early,
we shall move here

as it has been
described in my book of

cultural orientation.

So we shall just leave here,

up to Europe here.

So from here you
also take a plane to--

to United States of America

then you pass here, this route,

up to New York, my place.

New York, my place, is here.

This New York...

Very tiny.

So you are going to America?

- Yes.
- Why America?

The good-hearted people
of America wanted us
to go there

and to go to school
and get a job.

That is why we are
going to America.
To go to school and get a job.

- That is why you are going.
- Yes.

Or is it because you have
no more school here?

Let's be honest, John.

Just say that life
is hard in the camp,
not because of school.

In America you cannot go to bed
with an empty stomach.

I have seen that people
who come back
from America are fatter.

But here there's
no food left so, okay,
you can go to America.

What I've heard about America
makes me have fear.

There are those who do not like
to work or are lazy.

They will ask you to dig
the latrine or work the farm.

There are other jobs in America
besides digging latrines.

Other jobs like
cleaning dog teeth.

Singing songs to old people
so that they fall asleep.

If I was going to America,

I would work very hard.
I would even wash dogs.

Okay, so now go to America
and work very hard

so you can
send money back to us.

My leaving for U.S.
is also very painful.

You can even see and judge
that it is not very simple

to just miss
a company like this.

It is like my family now.

Very painful.

I love them so much.

I like to persevere, or share
these very hardships with them.

But when chance comes,

I cannot deny.

I have to go.
I have to go.

I feel confident.

The food we got in the plane

was not really
as good as what we

used to be eating

at Kakuma.

It tastes like soap,
you know, that small one.

I don't know
if it is soap or bitter, really.

I guess it is good. People say,
"It is food, you know. Eat."

But when I try a taste,
it is like soap, actually.

And even now, I cannot tell.

Is that meat?

Is that milk?

Is that cheese?

I cannot tell.

You push it like this.

It's ready.

For clothes?

Whatever you use in the kitchen,
is it green?

It depends how much you...

You clean yourself.

After all.

You wash your hands first.

In this room is four people?

All right.

Is this edible?

We eat it?

Without being cooked?

- What about this one?
- What about this one?

Do you make this
out of maize, corn?

- Hoagie bun?
- Hoagie buns?

- Hoagie buns.
- Yeah, hoagie buns.

Oh, yeah, hoagie bun, yeah.

Hoagie bun.
Hoagie bun.

Is this a food?

Thank you.

Excuse me, it looks like beans.

Is this also for sale?

It is there in our country.

Really, we are surviving.

What about these things,
have you for sale?

I was told that

the place that we are here
is New York State

and the place area is Syracuse.

Somebody told me
when I was in Kakuma that

America is a very strange place.

If you happen
to be walking on the way,

on the road,
you will meet an accident

or somebody may come

and he will kill you.

But all in all, I'm now
seven days old in America

and I have never
seen such a thing.

Maybe it will happen,
but not now.

As I am talking to you,

America is okay.

The place that
I am now is very good.

But those whom I left in Kakuma,

I left them in a very bad place.

If I get good place,
why not them?

That's my first question.

I don't know
what I can tell them,

rather than to say
"Thank you" to them.

I really love them.

I don't know...

those guys.

Anyway, I also pray very hard
that God keep them.

Also, keep me alive.

And I have to do
what is expected of me.

That's my duty.
People have hope in me.

When we run away from Sudan,

despite me being 13,

I was taller than the others

so I had to be select out,
that please,

"You are big now,
so please go and--

and do this job."

So I had to take care of them.

I was in charge of one group.

1,200 and something person.

That was the time
I learned how to

bury the dead bodies.

That was part of my job.

I have to go and bury
my fellow brothers.

Imagine, at the age of 13,
can bury.

It was so difficult.

It was so bad.

But because of the situation...

and our time, what do we do?
We have to do that.

It was as if

the last day,
as people say in the Bible

that there will be a last day

that Jesus Christ will come,

whatever on Earth
will be judged.

That was my imagination.

I thought
that God felt tired of...

of people on Earth here,

felt tired of the bad deeds

the bad thing that we are doing,
yet God is watching on us.

I thought God got tired of us

and he want to finish us.

When I think of it back...

it was so bad anyway.

You can even think of--

you can even regret
why you were born.

Now I wonder,
I'm now again wearing clothes

feeling very happy,
and so anyway,
everything has an end.

Has an end.

Even if there's problem
in Sudan still

maybe one time,
one day, one minute

it will come to an end.

We really suffer.

People have hope in me.

So it will be bad
for me to fail them.

I was wonder,

how come I came to this place?

So when I sleep,

- it seem as a dream actually.
- I found myself

sleeping in
six mattress inches, eh?

- Imagine this.
- So, it was very comfortable.

And at Kakuma

we used to sleep
just on the ground.

You see, you open, you put it.

After it got full,

you take it out.

This is a cupboard.

Now, it's comprised
of different things.

Here you can see.

these are meat. This is meat.

This is a chicken.

It's now in the very cold.
It's being refrigerated.

So you can see a lot of things.

This is meat of...
different things.

This is-- we call it...

Franks! This is frank.

This is Pepsi and we call it--
in Africa we call it

Coca-Cola.

No, it's written "Pepsi."
Imagine.

It tastes very nice, you know.

Even though we are now
in United States,

we are eating well,
we are sleeping well.

We think a lot of our own
brothers, mothers and fathers.

And even now,
we don't feel comfortable.

So, I'm worried about them.

But they are very happy

if I will be self-reliant,
self-sufficient,

to support myself

and to stand on my own feet,

then I will see.

I will even send them
something so that they
can survive with it.

I am very happy
if they give me job,

I can support myself.

And if I work on my own,

I can buy whatever I like.

So I'm very happy
if they employ me

within the interval
of three months.

I will be very happy.

It will surprise many people.

Oh, look at these people
are eating even
using their hands.

But this is look traditional.

This will make us
to look more Dinka.

Make us look more African.

Because as you know,

a person without culture is like

a human being without land.

So it is good
to keep our tradition.

Would you mind to explain a bit
what is Santa mean?

And why do you set up this,

a Christmas tree?

Yes, a bit beautiful,

but what is the meaning?

That's all we are asking

to any American to tell us
what's the meaning of this.

Is it in the Bible?

Is Santa also in the Bible?

I've never.

That is Santa Claus,
it's Santa Claus.

And how does it connected with

with the birth of Jesus Christ?

I think many of us
have so many questions to ask

but I think we have few,

few people to answer them.

The force of gravity
will act on me and

since I'm very tall.

I don't know if I can do it.

Is it easy to make it?

Can I-- can I make it?

Oh, I fear it!

This is very dangerous.
I cannot do it.

I cannot do it.

I want to try it now.
I want to try it.

Andrew is like

a soldier wounded in the war.

You have so many things

to use

to celebrate the Christmas.

What we have
in Africa is also good,

but ours is mainly

celebrating the birth
of Jesus Christ,

that Jesus Christ
is going to be born

in our heart.

So we have to
prepare ourselves spiritually.

Christmas Eve in Kakuma camp

people have to march
around the streets,

dancing and singing.

We are missing them.

We are missing friends.

We are missing
our fellow countrymen.

We want not
to be late for work.

Sometimes they
drop us there at 5:00

and we begin at 7:00,

so we have to be
outside sleeping somewhere.

Now this is part of my work.

It's gaskets.

Me and Margaret, we make them
look good and arrange them.

I think it's so simple.

The work is very very very good.

Anything that
is generating money,

is generating income,

so that I get money
and help my people back.

Is it wonderful?

It's very wonderful.

If my African fellow brothers

or...

people in Africa hear that

we are serving people
in a restaurant,

McDonald's,

they can laugh at me.

But no problem. That's struggle.

It's difficult here in America.

Everybody goes to work.

You have different schedules,

you have different work.

No time even for family
to be together.

Why is it tough like that?

I usually go home late at night.

I usually start work at 4:00
and finish at 12:00,

then take bus at 12:15,

but sometimes you miss the bus
like I miss it today.

So I may wait until 1:00

and reach home at 2:00

and wake up
in the morning time at 7:00.

You know, that's hard.

Everything is different.

It's kind of irritating because

people know you're from Africa.
They say, Where are you from,
Africa?" "Yes."

Some people, they say,
"Do they live in the forest?"

Nobody's born in the forest,
you can't live in the forest.

You have to live in a house.

In the United States,

people are not friendly.

You can find someone
that's walking in the street
by himself, you know,

don't even talk, you know.

You cannot go to the house
of somebody you don't know,

though you are all Americans.

They call the police and say,
"Why did this guy
come to my house?

I don't know him."

But in Sudan, they can ask you,
"Have you got lost?

Are you new to this place?"
They can ask you that.

You say, "I'm new
to this place," they can
show you where you are.

You can even talk with them.

It is important we ask them,
how do people walk in this area?

How do people feel
when you ask somebody,

"How can you show me a way?"

How do you feel, you know?

That's difficult. You cannot
even ask them because
these are different people.

That's really difficult.
I don't know.

How are we going to be
acquainted with this life here?

It's a great shame, actually.

S-U-D-A-N.

Yeah, Sudan.

It's a country
where I came from.

So it's a country
of black people, you know.

They look black, all of them.

You go there,
you cannot find white man.

When I lived in Kakuma

we were living as a group.

People are together every day.

But now, here,
it's just only four of us.

Four of us are not enough, so

it is difficult.

Imagine I left my parents

at the age of 13.

That was long long time ago.

I've been looking for them,

sending many letters
through Red Cross

and through many agencies

but nothing--
nothing replied my messages.

This is my workplace.

This is beautiful.
You see people working with me.

This is good atmosphere.

People are so friendly.

People say the hard time
you take now maybe will pay off.

So I have that hope.

Hard times to do those things--

like going to work,
going to school

establish a new life
in a new place

without parents.

You don't have a choice
to be together like in the camp,

like in Kakuma.

Daniel Pach is my best friend.

He's going
to work different place,

I go to work different place,

we come home late,

we don't see one another
for even two, three weeks.

So...

it's kind of lonely.

But this is the life of America.

We learn them.

We're getting used to them.

You see now, my...

apartment is look nice.

Little by little, we're learning
the culture over here.

- What's your name?
- My name's John.

What are you studying?

I'm studying it all.

Sweet.

All of the guys who are
now in the United States,

we can do something
much better than

just going to a factory job,
working.

So, right now
I'm going to school to be

something higher than that.

It's really a very crucial and

very important day for me today

because I'm starting my future.

"Dear Brother John Bul Dau,

it is

very very long time

for us without

hearing each other

since you have escaped

the attack.

We are

very happy

that you are alive.

We thank God for

helping you in the--

in all these crises."

I just received a mail.

When I got the news

I jumped up.
I jumped up.

I don't believe my ears.

I completely
don't believe my eyes.

My dad and my mom,

my three brothers,
my three sisters

are living--

are living in Uganda.

This my father

and this is my mom.

This is my mom.

So this is my family.

These are my sisters.

This is my sister

and those are relatives.

This is my brother.

He look like me.

Maybe he's taller than me
or I'm taller than him.

I don't know.

"If really you are

in United States of America,

please learn that

all your sisters,

mother, brothers are

suffering from disease
in Uganda refugee camp

and they are naked.

Our uncle Leck Deng

was killed by government troops.

And uncle Anderia Ayuel

also killed, and

their five children

were also killed.

The rest of our clan, all...

also killed and

our home was destroyed."

Right now

I'm feeling a weight.

I now know they are there.

So I think it is
my time to help them.

I'm strong enough to do that.

The discovery of my family

changed some plans
I had already planned.

I was about to go to school

this month.

But...

when I discovered
they are there,

I had to work two jobs

and even three jobs.

I decided personally

not to go to school

until...

I change their situation...

by sending money to them.

I am hoping
to bring my family here.

So that I know they are well,

and I know they are secure.

Yeah, they know
they have to go to Darshir.

You see,
do you know why I'm worried?

The amount of money is--

the amount of money that I sent,

this is a huge amount of money.

Imagine 1,000

U.S. dollars.

I thought when I come to America

then I have
to make myself, okay,
try to help my people,

try to help my country.

But now it's really difficult.

I want these people to use
the money right away.

If I confirm that

money have not been received,

then I will call you tomorrow.

Okay, bye.

We have been called
from Africa so many times.

Like one day we have to find

28 messages

in our answering machine.

And it's so painful to say,
"No, I don't have money.

No, I don't have money."

So we continue sending money,
sending money,
sending money like that

and we shall
end up with nothing.

But what can I do?

Can I run away from work?

If I do so, then I will be
a failure in life,
so I don't want to do that.

And that's why I'm saying

it's not what I was thinking.

I thought we shall
go further than this.

He always go to work
and come back

as time goes by

but when he left here on the 2nd

he never came back,
and his phone is shut off.

So we worry about him.
That's why we
reported it to police.

So that they will look about.

The Lost Boys
all over the United States,

they still have
that image of war.

They lose mind easily.

They put everything that
they have seen into their mind.

Now they're mixed up.

They become confused.

The human mind is complex.

It's not easy to go inside
and take away the bad thing.
No, not easy.

We see other people are
walk with their girlfriends.
We can't.

We see other kids are walk
with their parents. We can't.

But what can we do?

Can I cry?

Can I say I want my father?

There's nothing I can do.

They kill my father.
I see with my eyes.

I can remember.

So he was down. I thought
he would wake up, because--

I was learning that

people die, you know,
straight away,
and they don't come back.

It's something
that I cannot even forget.

I even sometimes dream
that there's airplanes
bombing people

like the way it was
in the Sahara.

The airplanes come,
called Antonov,

come "wooo" at night.

I do sometimes get scared,
but then when I wake up

I see I'm in America.

When we run away from Sudan,

people lose their mother,
their brother, sister,

so they feel hopeless.

Some even feel like
to kill themselves.

When I see that

I come up with different ideas,
to help them,

so they forget easily
what they are thinking...

and not feel lonely.

That's why I started Parliament,
little Parliament.

I came up with that idea
that I bring people together

and give each other
a chance to talk
and say whatever you say.

I used to sit under the tree
and tell them stories.

So everyone come
always to hear what I'm saying.

They forget about war,

they forget about
what is going on with them

and they come together
like a family.

That's the way
I helped them in the camp.

They say they miss that.

They say, "Daniel, you know,
no Parliament there?"

Is there no Parliament there
in the United States?"

I said, "No no, we are working.
There's no time."

Now I feel bad because

we have been suffering
all these days

and we come
to the United States,

we have opportunity
of helping them.

But what can we do?

It's something really hard.

I believe as a person

people have different talents

and all those talents
are serving the community.

God does not create me

as very tall person

for nothing.

I have a role to play.

I had a duty to do.

I was not just born like that.

But I was born to do something.

I can help to apply for

the coming of my mother
and my sister

Those are very important things
that I need to do.

But they are not--
they are not going to be--

that is not my limit.

Do you know
what we are doing today?

we are going to show
the society-- or the community--
of Syracuse that

that there is war in Sudan

and there is something
that needs to be done.

We are now remembering

those who have died

on all those journeys.

From Sudan to Ethiopia,

from Ethiopia to Kenya,

we have to remember.

To me, I know
I cannot forsake my culture.

American people
do not know about Africa,

but they will know
when we show it.

So we are here like ambassadors

in this country.

I feel like I'm in Africa.

It's like a camp,
like Kakuma camp,

where all of us meet together
and we chat and we talk

on all those issues.

what we are doing today is

the guys came together

to have a common strategy

on the betterment
of our future.

Then we can be able
to help ourselves
in the United States

and our people back home.

Being a Dinka man,
it requires you to help.

That's very important.

But I'm worried
with the young guys,

the Sudanese young guys,

those who can easily give up

whatever they have.

What if they forsake culture?

How is this people going to be?

Check out what's going on here.

Everything went great
and it's still going on.

Where are you from?

From KC-- Kansas City.

Can you film the inside?

What are you doing there?
The way you are dressing,

the way you are doing your hair,

the way you
are conducting yourself--

you are away from our culture.
Please come back.

Direct confrontation.

Even if he don't want,

tell him

"Change from there."

There is great changes.

But now we are learning them.

This is totally weird.

When we first came,
if you get like 200 bucks,

that was big.

But now...

there's a lot, lot of bills.

I have to pay my car bills,

I have to buy gas

and you know that gas is--

sucks. It's--

it's expensive!

So, it's hard to get something,

but if you can manage,

it's a land of opportunity.

This is the first step.

I want to go to the camp,

marry my girlfriend.

I want to move her here

to make life a little bit easy.

I graduated
with my high school diploma.

I graduated
with my Associate degree.

I'm going to Pitt University,
get my--

my Bachelor's.

My country's rich,
got a lot of oil,

got a lot of gold.

But our people don't know
how to exploit them.

So I have to come there,
build a school,

tell people the direction.

And I can tell there's--

there's improvement
I'm bringing in the world.

Up to this point,
I have to admit

that I was so so stressful.

But today

I'm okay.

I talked to my mom on the phone.

I talk in Dinka,
"Oh, my mom, how are you?"

She said, "You are not.

Please tell John Bul to come."

I told her, "Mom, my mom...

I'm not...

the 14-year-old boy you knew.

I'm changed, I'm a...

a big man--

a tall man, changed voice."

When I brought her around,

she just shed the tears.

So I have to resist.

How can I cry?

Let my cry and tears turn to

love or happiness.

So it was good for me.

I wish I was having...

a plane.

Then I could have gone already.

I want to see them.

Most of the Lost Boys
and Girls are living now

in 23 states
in the United States.

So we need to have
a united body, one,

to encourage unity among us.

We are like more than family,

because we know each other
when we are just
in childhood age

and so it's like
more than family.

We can take care
of our education
here in the United States.

We're trying to raise
some money for the Lost Boys
and Girls to go to school.

That's one thing.

Number two is that we need
to have a united delegation

to represent our problem
in Sudan to the White House.

I would like to thank my team
and I would like everybody

to clap for them for
the incredible job
that they have done.

America is a superpower.

I think it is advisable
for the American government

to look into our problem.

I can't go to Sudan, my country.

Yeah, otherwise

you can't come back.

Not only you
can't come back, but

you'll be persecuted.

If the government look into

the problem in Kosovo,

why not in Sudan?

Are we not human beings
like other human beings?

Can we not be helped?

Our people
are being killed every day

and face persecution.

Some of us
have never seen their families

since they were seven,
six, five years old.

Please talk to your government

so that the problem
in southern Sudan

will be solved

and there will be
no more Lost Boys

and there will be
no more Lost Girls.

Thank you.
God bless you.

We are in Whole Foods Market.

This is Whole Foods Market.
You can see here my sign.

It's Whole Foods Market.

And this is produce,
so I'm working in produce.

So the good thing here is

you must have to be born

with good personality

to work with customers,

to work with everybody.

You must have to
have knowledge of people.

I'm just working here
with this young lady.

She's so nice, you know,
when I first came.

People are like,
"What's this?"

And I'm like,
"This is a good fruit,
you can taste it."

And I have to go and cut it,
you know,

so that they taste
how it tastes like.

No problem, it's no problem.

I was going to work,
the Whole Foods Market
where I work.

Then I found one lady,
she was crying.

People walked by.
Nobody talked to her.

Nobody comforted her.

And me, I had that image,
like what I know in the camp.

I know when someone
is in pain, the best way

is to go
and involve in his problem.

So I go to her and ask her,
"What is your problem?"

I thought she would not accept
what I say,

but she look at me
and she feel
a little bit at home.

You can help people
in so many ways,

the way I see it.

Like the war in Sudan,
it seems like there's no answer

but the answer for it is there,

because if you have
good leaders in Africa,

they would know
how to treat people.

But they don't know
how to treat people.

They think of their own
and they neglect others.

Like in Sudan,
how long war been in Sudan?

It is a shame
for that country to be in war.

It is a shame to have
people that doesn't
take care of their own people.

I'm sure my mom is--

is alive...

because I heard
some of the Lost Boys
found their mothers, you know.

Someone say,
"I found my sister
or my brother."

So I wish
there is an opportunity of

having that, you know,
going back to Africa.

An opportunity of finding them
where they are.

I can do that,

because I'd like
to see my mother

and my small
brothers and sisters.

I miss them, really.

"In 1987,

when he was 13,

John Dau became separated from

his parents and siblings as he

fled an outbreak of violence

near their home
in Southern Sudan.

He wandered

hundreds of miles

across

Sudan and neighboring
East African countries

for several years,

before settling
as a refugee in Syracuse.

During that time,

he believed his family
had been killed.

Today,

Dau will be reunited

with his mother Anonde."

That's good.

Man, I can't wait
to see my mother.

What I really remember about her

when I was young,

I used to see her up.

You know, look her up and--

and I don't know whether
that would be the case today.

She was so tall, and--

I don't know now.

I think she is now

maybe way down.

I will look her down.

They said U.S.

3736.

That's the flight number.

Are you nervous?

Yeah, you know,

it's not easy.

17 years of separation

without seeing them.

It's very...

It's very amazing.

I'm scared.

You know,
she used to tell me that

"You have to work."
She was very hardworking.

"You have to work.

Otherwise,

you will not live."

I don't know what that--

what that means
when I was at home,

but I knew now

what she was telling me.

A very good day in my life.

It's a very good day. I'm just--

I'm just happy.

Anyway, I'm so sorry
for the other Lost Boys

that are not getting reunited
with their family today,

like what I'm doing.

In 20 minutes

I'm going to the airport.

I'm going to Africa.

So I'm very excited about it.

The purpose of going there
is to see my homeland.

Plus I'm going back

and I'm getting my wife.

This is the girl
I'm going to wed in a week.

So this is my girl right here.

It's so beautiful there,

I can say.

I was swimming along the Nile.

My mother home

is just like
a couple of minutes,

like five, 10 minutes
from the riverbank.

It's evergreen throughout.

There's a lot of animals

in the forest.

A lot of cattle.

It's fun.

I hope you can come there
and see our mother homeland.

It's so nice.
I love it.

This is the best.

I'm going to Africa.