He is writing a letter of appreciation to peers at Bentley High School in Lafayette, California. Through a student club, the Bay-Sudan Connection, students at Bentley raised scholarship funds to send Agau and five other Sudanese refugees to two top-secondary schools in Kenya.

  Computers at our partner schools in Kenya are not connected to the internet. We are working to bring satellite internet to Lodwar Boys & Turkana Girls

  NEW Scholars' first day at Lodwar Boys High School, one of the top schools in Kenya

  This picture was taken in Lodwar town. Here the scholarship recipients are walking in town shpping, getting ready to go off to boarding Schools--Lodwar Boys High & Turkana Girls Secondary School

  Getting ready to interview candidates for the New Scholars Scholarship Program

Safe drinking water is not guaranteed, so locals are forced to dig 5-10 feet into the river bed

  Once every 15 days, refugees line up to receive food ration consisting of 3-6 kilograms of dried corn (possibly from the Dakotas) or wheat flour but not much else

  This picture shows the desolate, arid Northern Kenya which is a home to over 100, 000 refugees from Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, Congo, and Burundi, etc.

This picture was taken at Kakuma Refugee Camp captures the vital role of the Sudanese diaspora in nation building once peace becomes permanent.