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Message from Amy Eisenberg, Ph.D.
March 1, 2016 4:26 PM
Amal was my student of Cultural Geography at Pima College. May he rest in peace. His memory is a blessing. I recently published this with Refugees International:
Amal, a Young Dinka Tribesman of Sudan
Amy Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Published by Refugees International
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/blog/2016/3/1/amal-a-young-dinka-tribesman-of-sudan
While teaching at Pima College, I had the honor of working with Amal, a young Dinka tribesman from Sudan. As an assignment, I asked my students to document their unique cultural geography. However difficult it was for Amal to discuss what he and his people experience, he put it in words. This is his story.
My name is Amal. I was born in Sudan, Africa around 1984 in a small rural area, Arumyiel near Yirol District. I was reared on a farm and cattle camp by my mom, most of the time. From there on, our country got into civil war uprisings in each state because African blacks were claiming their rights, as Islamic Arabs in the north of the country were introducing Sharia laws, which give only privileges to Muslims. Non-Muslims suffer if you don’t get along with those laws.
At that time, everything in the country was very disastrous. Schools in other regions were shot down. The war is extremely dangerous. Because the learning environment was being bombarded and school buildings completely destroyed, many people, especially young children and women were maimed and many others were left homeless with no food or running water. Thousands starved to death. Others, their arms and legs were chopped off, leaving them behind with nobody to care for them. Some of these persons died because no medical treatment was available. Many simply became wild animals’ food. For those others, who were strong and healthy, began a long journey to other nearby towns to be away from any enemy. Anyway there is more story to be narrated.
After all these sinister events in the country, many people decided to exit Sudan as a means of rescuing oneself. However, my mom told me that at this moment, we are in crisis and decided that I have to leave her behind and so I left for another neighboring country. My related family and I moved together to Ethiopia to go to school there. By that, we settled in refugee camps and I attended school there for some time.
Unbelievably, other terrible chaos happened in Ethiopia. Eritrea decided to go to war because they were demanding a self-governing state, so again we moved to the Sudan border and darted along to Kenya, where I spent many years in the refugees’ camp. Interestingly, the Department of Justice investigated the situation in the camp and decided to resettle the people in the United States.
Right now I am thanking God Almighty most high for letting me endure this terrible life, which was innocently imposed on me. I am also praying by his grace that he will make me strong to struggle very hard to accept challenges and to reinvent my mind and soul so that one day, I will be recognized and famously be well-known in this universe.
In the near future, I will pound my heart and congratulate myself for my persistence in pursuit of my dreams in life. What I have to say to myself is to keep my spirit up and self-determination. I am proud for my hard work and ethics that I put into high school to guarantee that I achieved and accomplished my high school diploma, and I did. Now, my new dream is to earn very good transferable credits to any university in the continental United States. My set goals for this time are to earn credits to be able to pass all the classes that I am currently enrolled in, and to also assure myself that I will produce a good passing grade and a GPA that is acceptable.
Ernest Amal Matueny was born to a farming family in Yiiol District of Bahr al Ghazal, Sudan (today South Sudan) on September 6, 1984. At the age of six, when war separated him from his home and family, he walked more than 400 miles from Sudan to Ethiopia, along with about 26,000 other children. Ernest resided in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until the fall of the government in 1992, which forced the children to walk back to Sudan and then on to Kenya. Only 17,000 children survived the 1,000-mile journey. He lived in the Kakuma Camp in Kenya under the care of the United Nations, earning his High School diploma from the Kakuma Secondary School.
Amal was relocated to the United States in December 2000, where he was taken into foster care in Arizona. After earning an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Pima Community College, Ernest moved to Amarillo to work in the meat packing industry. After a brief time of employment in Dodge City, Kansas, he relocated to Guymon, Oklahoma in 2014 to work at Seaboard Farms.
Ernest Amal Matueny died of exposure on a cold and snowy evening in Guymon, Oklahoma. At the time of his passing, he resided at The Oaks of Mamre in Guymon. Ernest loved learning and was an avid reader, when he wasn’t engaged in his passion for working with computers and other electrical equipment. He is remembered as a friend to everyone he met. Amal’s family lives; his parents, Raik Matueny and Nyanpieu Addling; two brothers and a sister, including Ajak Matueny and Mayen Matueny, all of Yiiol District, South Sudan.
Amal survived the horrors of war, discrimination and dislocation in his nation and neighboring countries, which still persist today…. He died as a refugee with these alarming experiences, in the United States on November 17, 2014. May my dear beloved student Amal rest in peace. His memory is a blessing.
http://guymondailyherald.com/content/earnest-amal-matueny
http://www.hensonnovak.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2814882,
http://amarillo.com/obituaries/2014-12-03/earnest-amal-matueny
Amal, a Young Dinka Tribesman of Sudan
Amy Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Published by Refugees International
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/blog/2016/3/1/amal-a-young-dinka-tribesman-of-sudan
While teaching at Pima College, I had the honor of working with Amal, a young Dinka tribesman from Sudan. As an assignment, I asked my students to document their unique cultural geography. However difficult it was for Amal to discuss what he and his people experience, he put it in words. This is his story.
My name is Amal. I was born in Sudan, Africa around 1984 in a small rural area, Arumyiel near Yirol District. I was reared on a farm and cattle camp by my mom, most of the time. From there on, our country got into civil war uprisings in each state because African blacks were claiming their rights, as Islamic Arabs in the north of the country were introducing Sharia laws, which give only privileges to Muslims. Non-Muslims suffer if you don’t get along with those laws.
At that time, everything in the country was very disastrous. Schools in other regions were shot down. The war is extremely dangerous. Because the learning environment was being bombarded and school buildings completely destroyed, many people, especially young children and women were maimed and many others were left homeless with no food or running water. Thousands starved to death. Others, their arms and legs were chopped off, leaving them behind with nobody to care for them. Some of these persons died because no medical treatment was available. Many simply became wild animals’ food. For those others, who were strong and healthy, began a long journey to other nearby towns to be away from any enemy. Anyway there is more story to be narrated.
After all these sinister events in the country, many people decided to exit Sudan as a means of rescuing oneself. However, my mom told me that at this moment, we are in crisis and decided that I have to leave her behind and so I left for another neighboring country. My related family and I moved together to Ethiopia to go to school there. By that, we settled in refugee camps and I attended school there for some time.
Unbelievably, other terrible chaos happened in Ethiopia. Eritrea decided to go to war because they were demanding a self-governing state, so again we moved to the Sudan border and darted along to Kenya, where I spent many years in the refugees’ camp. Interestingly, the Department of Justice investigated the situation in the camp and decided to resettle the people in the United States.
Right now I am thanking God Almighty most high for letting me endure this terrible life, which was innocently imposed on me. I am also praying by his grace that he will make me strong to struggle very hard to accept challenges and to reinvent my mind and soul so that one day, I will be recognized and famously be well-known in this universe.
In the near future, I will pound my heart and congratulate myself for my persistence in pursuit of my dreams in life. What I have to say to myself is to keep my spirit up and self-determination. I am proud for my hard work and ethics that I put into high school to guarantee that I achieved and accomplished my high school diploma, and I did. Now, my new dream is to earn very good transferable credits to any university in the continental United States. My set goals for this time are to earn credits to be able to pass all the classes that I am currently enrolled in, and to also assure myself that I will produce a good passing grade and a GPA that is acceptable.
Ernest Amal Matueny was born to a farming family in Yiiol District of Bahr al Ghazal, Sudan (today South Sudan) on September 6, 1984. At the age of six, when war separated him from his home and family, he walked more than 400 miles from Sudan to Ethiopia, along with about 26,000 other children. Ernest resided in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until the fall of the government in 1992, which forced the children to walk back to Sudan and then on to Kenya. Only 17,000 children survived the 1,000-mile journey. He lived in the Kakuma Camp in Kenya under the care of the United Nations, earning his High School diploma from the Kakuma Secondary School.
Amal was relocated to the United States in December 2000, where he was taken into foster care in Arizona. After earning an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Pima Community College, Ernest moved to Amarillo to work in the meat packing industry. After a brief time of employment in Dodge City, Kansas, he relocated to Guymon, Oklahoma in 2014 to work at Seaboard Farms.
Ernest Amal Matueny died of exposure on a cold and snowy evening in Guymon, Oklahoma. At the time of his passing, he resided at The Oaks of Mamre in Guymon. Ernest loved learning and was an avid reader, when he wasn’t engaged in his passion for working with computers and other electrical equipment. He is remembered as a friend to everyone he met. Amal’s family lives; his parents, Raik Matueny and Nyanpieu Addling; two brothers and a sister, including Ajak Matueny and Mayen Matueny, all of Yiiol District, South Sudan.
Amal survived the horrors of war, discrimination and dislocation in his nation and neighboring countries, which still persist today…. He died as a refugee with these alarming experiences, in the United States on November 17, 2014. May my dear beloved student Amal rest in peace. His memory is a blessing.
http://guymondailyherald.com/content/earnest-amal-matueny
http://www.hensonnovak.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2814882,
http://amarillo.com/obituaries/2014-12-03/earnest-amal-matueny
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