Jok Dau - Lost Boy of Sudan, who escaped a brutal civil war between North and South to Ethiopia at the age of six years old without parents. I spent four years in Ethiopia as a refugee in a camp. By 1991, I left Ethiopia under difficult circumstance because of  its civil war to Sudan but the war situation in Sudan was worst to endure and survive. Therefore, I proceeded my terrible journey to Kenya to seek a protection under the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR).  In 1992, I arrived in Kenya where I spent nine years at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana District of Northern Kenya. Fortunately, the United States government offered the resettlement to the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan and I came to the United States in June, 2001. My first settlement was Nashville, Tennessee and Columbus, Ohio is my second  resettlement home. I spent last nine years in the United State working and studying. In 2005, I graduated from Draughons Junior College in computer Information Technology. In addition, I graduated in 2009 at The Ohio State University, Major- International Studies, with a focus on International Relationship and Diplomacy, Minor- International Economics & Social Development. 

In 2005, the Sudan government and Sudan People Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) signed a historic  landmark Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that lessen the end of two decades of major hostility. When I learned about the CPA, I decided to visit my home village in 2007, since I left Sudan in 1987. I went to my village of Piol in Southern Sudan where the unprecedented annihilation was not a surprised to me. There I realized the issue of health as a major problem and set as target, which I would request my new nation and state to help the people of Piol to get health services upon my arrival in the United States of America in 2008.