Mohamed recently became a U.S. citizen with the guidance and support of our Immigration Legal Services team. Once a LOST BOY OF SUDAN, Mohamed's incredible life story can inspire us all.

In 1987, civil war drove an estimated 20,000 young boys from their families and villages in southern Sudan. Most just six or seven years old, they fled to Ethiopia to escape death or induction into the northern army. They walked more than a thousand miles across treacherous terrain, many barefoot. Half of the boys died before reaching the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. The survivors of this modern day exodus became known as the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Today, Mohamed has a lot to smile about -- you could call it a "smile of a thousand miles" -- thanks in no small part to the support you provide Catholic Charities.