Friendship between southern Sudan and Darfur

This past weekend Francis Bok, a young man from southern Sudan who endured then escaped from slavery, spoke at a community event in San Antonio. He discussed his recent return to southern Sudan, where for the first time in over 15 years he returned to his home village which had been destroyed in the very attack that took him into slavery. There he stood over the spot where his parents house had been (his parents were burned to death along with other adults in a massacre when the village was attacked) and had a joyful and emotional encounter with several of his long lost cousins. He also met with Darfurians refugees who had fled the genocide in Darfur to southern Sudan. He hopes to reconcile the people of Darfur and southern Sudan (the Sudanese government used the people of Darfur as cannon fodder in their genocidal war against the people of southern Sudan). He is working on building a school in his village which will benefit both the local population and the refugees from Darfur. Find out more about Francis' work and how you can support it at: www.sudansunrise.org