It’s Thursday and time for our Global Activism series. Each Thursday we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.

40,000 boys were driven from their families and homes in Sudan during the civil war in the eighties and nineties. Most, under eight years old at the time, this group became known as “The Lost Boys of Sudan.”

Today, almost 4,000 Lost Boys live in the U.S. as refugees.

Jok Kuol Wel is a Lost Boy living in Chicago.  He is the co-founder and President of Help Sudan.  Del Shimandle is the Vice President of Help Sudan.  Their organization started the second school in the area of Jok's home village since the war and is working to bring education to Sudanese children.

They built the second-ever school in southern Sudan, and are working to bring education to Sudanese children.

Jok told Jerome how he left his home in Southern Sudan.