Since the human race began, we have been discovering ways to expand our lives and survive in the world. We have acquired natural instincts when it comes to surviving. For example, fight or flight is a natural response when we feel threatened by something. The Lost Boys of Sudan are an amazing example of what we would do in order to survive.
For example chapter 1 Southern Sudan, 1985, “Stay away from the villages-run into the bush. He went to the door and looked out again. Go! All of you, now!” This shows that war is a huge hardship in southern Sudan by pushing kids out of school because they are endangered.
The same applies to the children of Sierra Leone, where they were separated from their families—however, these children will never end up finding their families, they will never have a happy life again, and will never remember how it felt to be loved or cared for by someone. The 1991 Sierra Leonean civil war split children from their families and forced them to survive on their own—without any supervision. Many children were either captured by the rebels or were forced to join the military and fight the rebels. Nearly all “strong” children forced to endure many painful situations and commit immoral acts. All children who were not recruited were killed because they were too “weak”.
The article titled, “When violence closes schools, Afghan girls are the most vulnerable” by Josh Smith explained how the advancement of violence in Afghanistan is threatening education but more so girls' education. The article first explained how a large amount of girls in Afghanistan have never been to school, but the article later explained although not all children have received education a large majority have but that is now headed in reverse. Furthermore the article explained the growing violence in the country is a cause to the schools “closing at an alarming rate due to insecurity” as explained by the Human Rights Watch report. This insecurity is causing once secure schools to close down, furthermore preventing children from gaining
It was the summer of 1985 is Southern Sudan when many people sent out on a journey to have a better life. Salva, the main character was able to survive by using adaptability, positive attitude, and motivation. Salvas adventure was very crazy and scary. He watched many people die in front of him. Salva had to adapt to the places he was at.
The Lost Boys of Sudan is a very interesting film. I thought it was very well documented and did an excellent job at portraying the life of a group of boys moving to America from Sudan. It effectively portrayed the growth of the boys as the spent more time in the foreign land. Although I felt that the entire film was very thought-provoking, the parts that had me thinking the most were the scene when Peter said “I cannot say America is good, or America is bad,” “I thought I came to America so I can gain something, but we don’t get it.
Child Soldiers An organization that addresses the issue of child soldiers is named “War Child”. Based in the United Kingdom, War Child provides life-changing support to the most vulnerable children whose families, communities and schools have been torn apart by war. This includes child soldiers, in addition to other children whose lives have been forever changed by war. A general overview of War Child’s organization highlights key endeavors such as protecting, educating and advocating for those children. War Child provides quite a few services to address the issue of child soldiers.
In the country of Syria, there is a civil war that is effecting the lives of many people living there, especially the children. The war first started when some of the civilians of Syria became outraged at views and leadership of President Bashar al-Assad. They decided to take action and began peaceful protest in hopes of changing so views or leadership action. However, President Assad see the protesters as an uprising rebel unit to remove his presidency and resulted in the use of military force to remove and stop all protest. The rebels stood up for what they believed in which turned into a civil war in the country of Syria.
“The government of South Sudan has identified education as a priority in its development plan” (Odhiambo). “It has taken various policy and programmatic steps since it gained autonomy from Sudan in 2005 and independence in 2011 to increase school enrolment, including advancing the rights of girls to education” (Odhiambo). The Sudanese government has at least recognized the need for education in Sudan but the government is not likely prepared to retrieve resources to make better education a
In the 1980’s, a war struck South Sudan. A Civil War broke out, causing most of the Sudanese population to leave. In this war many young boys were forced to join i on the fighting. Sudanese men, women, and kids had to come to the United states because of the civil war.
Because of the war, getting an education is difficult for Syrian refugees. Back at the Zaatari refugee camp, camp schools were built to help continue education (Associated Press 3). Although, just because these schools are being built, doesn’t mean everyone can go. In fact, most students in these camp schools have to drop out because they can’t afford it (Associated Press 4). People aren’t just learning in schools, but also in libraries.
Darfur Darfur is one of many countries on this planet that have a dystopian system, and a dystopia is very common thing. First of all, Darfur became a dystopian country when the Khartoum government neglected the request of help from the civilians of Darfur. A dystopian society is an unbalanced relationship between the government and civilians; Omar al-Bashir and the Khartoum government are the important people of Darfur that are controlling and terrorizing Darfur instilling fear in everyone. One can examine that Omar al- Bashir’s choices were very influencing on Darfur, his impacts had an enormous effect on normal civilians or another nation, and how genres of literature can be used as a tool in educating people about the progression towards
The first time they are introduced to a formal education is in a school building. The school system lays out a foundation that develops a child 's mind, nurtures their gifts and teaches about responsibility. These key factors set up a child to become successful and soar high in life because they have learned the basis to society. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are forced to abandon their education due to health problems related to malnutrition, or work to provide support for their family. In some third world countries the lack of education is scarce and not valued as much.
South Sudan is Africa’s first new country since Eritrea split from Ethiopia in 1993. This resulted from the people’s secession from main-Sudan through a referendum done in January 2011. Prior to this was also Africa’s longest civil war which started in 1955 when the southern armies mutinied. The conflict only ended in 1972 when the south was granted autonomy. But, in 1983, the south, led by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and its armed wing, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, again rose in rebellion when the Sudanese government cancelled the autonomy arrangements.
In the world today about 264 plus million children are being denied access to free education, according to Global Campaign for Education-civil society movement. Up to 80 percent of the world's out of school 5 to 18 year olds live in the sixty-five countries that a similar, more modern organization, Global Partnership for Education, is associated with. These are the children that are going to be leading and populating their own countries eventually so if have no education, how can they make logical decisions for the benefit of their country and the world? Education is globally recognized as a human right according to a number of international conventions. In all highly developed countries most people would claim education should be free for children worldwide yet a quarter of a billion children are denied education.
