Lost Girls! Majority of young women in the Baai-Bor Women in Australia Inc are Sudanese Lost Girls. They got separated in the late 1980s from their parent in Bor region, as a result of the Civil War in Sudan. As narrated in many stories, thousands of youths in Southern Sudan were ripped from their homes in the late 1980s, due to the conflict between the Sudan Government in the North, with the indigenous of Southern Sudan. They were forced to wander for years across the east African savannah, until they lastly settled in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. After many years later in Kakuma, many of them left for America, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Their brief story below will tell you about how they left home!  In the late 1980s, the mixture of young boys & girls fled the Sudan's civil war, suffered government's bombings, starvation, alligator attacks and wild animals on their journey to seek protection in Ethiopia (Panyidu). In reference to this map, one can get sense of how the young girls and boys left their Motherland in the late 1980s, from Bor in Sudan, to Panyidu in Ethiopia, crossing the river Gilo back to Pochalla in Sudan and then further running to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. These groups of young people have today ended up in big cities, across different part of the world where they called a home. In 1991 in Ethiopia, when the Marxist regime of Mengistu Hailie Miriam fell, the Sudanese camps in Panyidu came under attack from the local people. As a result of the problem in Ethiopia, the Lost Boy/Lost Girls' custodians decided that it was better to return to Sudan instead of risk losing control of the food relieve being provided for the minors in their care. The boys and girls, and their custodians run back to Sudan (Pochalla). During the crossing of River Gilo in running back to Sudan from Ethiopia, many children who did not know how to swim drown, and the crocodile took some, but the luckiest individuals managed their way to crossed the River back to Sudan, and then fled further fighting and starvation in Sudan, arriving at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya between 1992 and 1994. When they left Sudan for Ethiopia, their numbers were estimated between 20, 000 to 25,000. Fewer than 15,000 arrived in Kakuma, according to the UN. In the late 2000 in Kakuma, the United States government aims much promotion, chosen these minors as a priority caseload for resettlement to the United States of America. The original catalog of resettlement cases submitted to the U.S. government by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was including no girls. After many lost boys left for America, they turned and asked where their sisters, girlfriends and cousins were, and their custodians in the camp were also demanding fairness in resettlement policy for the young women (Lost Girls) who arrived with them from Ethiopia camp all the way to Kakuma Refugee Camp. Regrettably, not many lost girls made it to America with Lost Boys, though the lost boys tried to complain about them (Lost Girls), only small number of lost girls left for America with lost boys. After they (Lost Girls) were left behind in the refugee camp, some married few lost boys who were also left in the camp during the suspension of the resettlement to USA. This group migrated afterward to Australia and elsewhere with their husbands, While the remaining individual got married to Lost boys who were taken to USA, and their husbands subsidize them to USA through spouse Visas! |
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