#SharetheJourney – A Boy on a Journey
“I was not lost. I was just a boy on a journey,” says Ger Duany, whose life has taken him from serving as a child soldier to acting in five movies, most recently in “The Good Lie” with Reese Witherspoon. He says fellow South Sudanese refugees have been very supportive of the film as it captures their story. Ger adds, “My heart still pounds when I see it on the screen and I see the problems again.”
Today our Episcopal Migration Ministries Pilgrimage spent time with Ger at the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Hub in Nairobi. He has come a long way from a childhood in which he learned every part of an AK-47 before he reached puberty. And yet, he remains connected to and concerned for his home land as well as those who have followed him in resettling in the US. My photo of EMM Pilgrim Scott Gunn with Ger Duany.
The film, “The Good Lie,” offers rare insight as it is about resettlement in the US from the South Sudanese perspective.
Ger is clear that many of the South Sudanese who went to the western world lost their way. For himself, he says that he was fortunate to find basketball and through that sport, a scholarship. Ger found it difficult to navigate his way in America until he graduated from college, which is not open to all who are forced to leave their homes due to persecution.
Ger says, “Many of the guys I came with did not have that opportunity and so they went into the military and they died in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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Ger works now to support work with refugees. He says, “UNHCR has impacted my life and I want to add my small voice and also to work with those who are helping South Sudanese.”
In a pilgrimage focused on better understanding refugees, it was a delight to meet a so called Lost Boy who not only found his way, but who also continues to help others.
Peace,
Frank
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