Profile: Lost Boys, Simon Deng & Peter Nyok

When Simon Deng & Peter Nyok were children, walked hundreds of miles across Sudan, fleeing killers who intended to wipe out their generation. They dodged, lions, alligators and bullets on their journey to the U.S.

Today both young men attend college in Silicon Valley.Simon is studying to be a nurse. He also speaks to school age children about water conservation for the Santa Clara Water District

Peter raises funds and facilitates the relocation of groups of Sudanese orphans so they can attend school in Kenya.

Profile: Lost Boys, Simon Deng & Peter Nyok 26 October,2011Becca King Reed

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