06/19/2003

A Sudanese "Lost Boy" who had been cleared to resettle in the United States in 2001 finally gets his chance to board a bus to the Kakuma airstrip. From there, he will leave Kakuma behind him and start a new life in North Carolina. He waited two years for this moment. After Sept. 11, 2001, the resettlement program to the United States froze and the boys waited, wondering if they would ever be able to join their friends. "When I saw my name on the board," he tells RI, "I didn’t believe it. I thought it was just a medical check. When they told me I should cut up my ration card, that is when I knew it was real."