Meet Paul Parach. He’s 24, and currently in his second year of high school, thanks to CARE International’s operations in Dadaab. His story will make you stop whatever you’re doing and think about the latent talent of people in refugee camps.
Paul left his small village in South Sudan at the age of 9, chased out by militia groups. He was forced to leave his mother and four sisters back home. After several weeks of walking across the country with a group of other young boys, he arrived at the Kenyan border and then at Kakuma refugee camp.
There, he was shot in the leg by a man from a rival tribe, and moved to the ICU in Nairobi. His leg was paralyzed.
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Paul is a testament of how talent is present even in the most dire circumstances, and with opportunities like those offered by Samasource, potentials can be realized. It’s amazing how quickly Paul picked up e-mail skills; I look forward to hearing about the results of his present efforts of acquiring a scholarship to U.S. schools.