Helping hand for SudanChol Deng is being kept out of harm's way in Africa as much as possible by a group of people he's never met — the members of Christ Episcopal Church in Smithfield.
Such an outreach is nothing new to the congregation, which church member Betsy Egan describes as being "such a warm group of people."
Chol (the "ch" is pronounced as in "church") is a 13-year-old boy from Sudan now going to boarding school in neighboring Kenya. Were it not for the support of the church and the Outreach Africa: Lost Boys Foundation, he would likely be in danger of enslavement, forced military service or even death in his war-ravaged native land.
In the past few decades, Sudan has experienced a civil war. The U.S. State Department has labeled the violence as genocide, particularly for residents in the Darfur region in the western part.
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