Like thousands of other children trying to escape Sudan’s war and genocide, Daniel Deng walked hundreds of miles -- month after month walking farther and farther from his home country. “I had to walk the whole night ... and maybe rest for an hour,” he remembers.
The exhausting and debilitating journey eventually took him to Ethiopia, then Kenya and finally the United States. Now permanently confined to a wheelchair -- sa a result of the dibilitating journey, Daniel works in Colorado in the computer industry, far from the violence and bloodshed that were a part of his homleand.
In his wheelchair, though, Daniel has now returned Sudan to help register voters for participation in elections for Sudan's presidential, state and legislative offices. “I tell them that this thing called voting in this generation is something that people have fought and died for. So, now you have got it, why don't you exercise your right and vote?”
The April elections are a major milestone in a 2005 peace agreement that ended a north-south civil war that killed more than 2 million people.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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