Is It Enough?
Look back at different people’s childhood. Is it filled with memories of no responsibility, spending lazy summers at the pool, or even sleeping until noon some days? For most children in America this is what their childhoods entailed, for the Lost Boys of Sudan, it is quite a different story. The “Lost Boys” spent many years fleeing from country to country in Africa trying to escape the fighting going on in and around their homes. Being forced from their villages, most alone and without family, they had to trek to different refugee camps looking for safety. Even though the situation in refugee camps wasn’t always better than trekking across the Sudan. Most wanted to escape the fighting and start fresh in America, the land of …show more content…
This overwhelmingly long period of fighting displaced tens of thousands of young children across the Sudan. It forced them to walk through dangerous wilderness and deserts in search of safety, their families, and food to keep them alive. All of this fighting stemming from the South Sudanese people wanting their independence from the enforcement of harsh new rules from northern elites. Before the South Sudanese people were able to gain their independence from the north, the George W. Bush administration created a network of support the help the South gain their much needed independence. “President Bush appointed former Senator John Danforth as the first of the US special envoys for this region and Danforth played a major role in helping bring about the CPA and South Sudan’s right of self-determination” (“The United States and South Sudan” 4). This shows that even before the U.S began to send massive amounts of aid to help the Sudanese rebuild and the “Lost Boys” to escape the fighting of two civil wars, the U.S. was pivotal in helping gain independence for South Sudan. Gaining independence was the first step to creating a unified country not doomed to disaster. All while trying to keep the fragile state of peace, and the two countries not to return to war. From the …show more content…
This aid was needed to help the people and government of South Sudan. Each country sending humanitarian aid can not afford to keep sending aid to the South Sudanese for the rest of time and can not risk hurting their own economies to support an unstable country. They have done all they can to help these people and and their government and continue to do all that they can to help the people of
Look back at different people’s childhood. Is it filled with memories of no responsibility, spending lazy summers at the pool, or even sleeping until noon some days? For most children in America this is what their childhoods entailed, for the Lost Boys of Sudan, it is quite a different story. The “Lost Boys” spent many years fleeing from country to country in Africa trying to escape the fighting going on in and around their homes. Being forced from their villages, most alone and without family, they had to trek to different refugee camps looking for safety. Even though the situation in refugee camps wasn’t always better than trekking across the Sudan. Most wanted to escape the fighting and start fresh in America, the land of …show more content…
This overwhelmingly long period of fighting displaced tens of thousands of young children across the Sudan. It forced them to walk through dangerous wilderness and deserts in search of safety, their families, and food to keep them alive. All of this fighting stemming from the South Sudanese people wanting their independence from the enforcement of harsh new rules from northern elites. Before the South Sudanese people were able to gain their independence from the north, the George W. Bush administration created a network of support the help the South gain their much needed independence. “President Bush appointed former Senator John Danforth as the first of the US special envoys for this region and Danforth played a major role in helping bring about the CPA and South Sudan’s right of self-determination” (“The United States and South Sudan” 4). This shows that even before the U.S began to send massive amounts of aid to help the Sudanese rebuild and the “Lost Boys” to escape the fighting of two civil wars, the U.S. was pivotal in helping gain independence for South Sudan. Gaining independence was the first step to creating a unified country not doomed to disaster. All while trying to keep the fragile state of peace, and the two countries not to return to war. From the …show more content…
This aid was needed to help the people and government of South Sudan. Each country sending humanitarian aid can not afford to keep sending aid to the South Sudanese for the rest of time and can not risk hurting their own economies to support an unstable country. They have done all they can to help these people and and their government and continue to do all that they can to help the people of