Running toward education: Former child soldier’s path to UBC Okanagan student athlete
A South Sudanese refugee who ran towards education after being taken as a child soldier is now a University of British Columbia student and athlete, and he is just getting started.
Achuli said that he was taken to a rebel base where he trained to fight in the civil war with guns so big his small 13-year-old body could hardly lift them. With the group of strangers and only his books for comfort, Achuli began the voyage through the jungle toward the possibility of safety. After reaching the refugee camp, Achuli was taken in by UNICEF which has a program for vulnerable children.
It was there that for the first time in years, Achuli could wake up knowing he would eat that day instead of worrying about sustenance, which meant he could focus his energy on education.He excelled in academics, and spent his free time reading and writing in his journals and playing soccer with the other children.“At the end of my Grade 10, I had this friend who had an idea of what the internet was.
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