South Sudan

Abraham and Boir came to Vermont with the first wave of Sudanese in the winter of 2001, and worked their way through High School requirements and into UVM all the while maintaining a 8-hr job to pay their living expenses. Both are UVM graduates and both have graduate degrees (Abraham a Masters in Public Administration from Syracuse, Bior a Ph.D. in molecular science from UVM). Sandy and Margy Zabriskie have put each of them up in their home from time to time and know them well. Both have gone back to South Sudan to help in the fashioning of a working democratic government. Both are married with small children who are living in Uganda (it's safer than So. Sudan right now). Both are able to talk personally about their involvement with the So. Sudanese government as it has tried to deal with the tribal rebellions