{"id":19634,"date":"2017-06-19T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=19634"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:22:05","slug":"world-refugee-day-moses-misses-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/blog\/world-refugee-day-moses-misses-father","title":{"rendered":"World Refugee Day: Moses misses his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><em>Nearly 10,000 refugee children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without their parents. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/refugeeday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Refugee Day<\/a>, June 20, meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children who now must wear the shoes of a father for his sisters. Learn how this responsibility weighs on him now and how World Vision is helping to look after them. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *<\/p>\n<p>This past <a href=\"\/sponsorship-news-stories\/fathers-day-unsung-heroes?campaign=10680863\">Father&rsquo;s Day<\/a> weekend, I was fortunate to spend the evening with my dad and watch my kids with their own father.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re a lucky bunch in my family. My sister and I grew up with a dad who challenged us and cheered us, told us we were smart and expected us to act like it, and continues to nurture a relationship with each of us. My kids have a dad who, from day one, considered each of them the most beautiful and brilliant thing in the world &mdash; and reminds them every day how loved they are.<\/p>\n<p>Good dads aren&rsquo;t necessarily a rarity, but they&rsquo;re not a forgone conclusion either. Those who have them are fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, I got to talk with 16-year-old Moses about his dad. Moses lived in southern <a href=\"\/country\/africa\/south-sudan?campaign=10680863\">South Sudan<\/a> with his parents and two sisters, 14-year-old Medina and 10-year-old Victoria. He liked school and excelled in science. He liked hearing his dad&rsquo;s stories and watching movies with him.<\/p>\n<p>But a few months ago, the violence of his young country&rsquo;s now three-year civil war found his community. &ldquo;The conflict found me &hellip; when I was in school,&rdquo; he remembers. &ldquo;People started running from the school, but the school manager collected us together in a room and kept us there away from the crossfire so we would not be injured by the bullets. As soon as the bullets stopped, they released us. On my way, I found my father was coming to get me from the school.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Together that evening, his parents made a decision: They would walk from their home and find safety in the refugee settlements across the border in <a href=\"\/country\/africa\/uganda?campaign=10680863\">Uganda<\/a>, at least until the violence calmed. His father had done that during the 22-year civil war in Sudan before South Sudan gained independence in 2011. He was confident that this was the best way to keep his family safe.<\/p>\n<p>They started their journey early the next morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19639\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19639 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Nearly 10,000 children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without parents. This World Refugee Day, meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1-360x203.png 360w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1-850x478.png 850w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1-1140x641.png 1140w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-1-1280x720.png\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses sits with his sisters as he tells their story. (&copy;2017 World Vision\/photo by Amy Parodi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not long into their journey, the family was stopped by a group of soldiers who forced Moses and his father to the ground, beating them and accusing them of fighting for their enemies. Before his father could explain that they weren&rsquo;t fighting for anyone, soldiers shot and killed him.<\/p>\n<p>They then turned to his mother, who was standing nearby with Medina and Victoria, and took her back to their barracks, leaving the three children alone with their father&rsquo;s body. They were there for three days.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Within those three days, we are not even taking food. We are only surviving on water,&rdquo; Moses remembers. &ldquo;We are crying and we have no energy to put the body in order. &hellip; We are just watching him down there while we are mourning.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers from an opposing group found the children and brought them to their barracks. They offered them a proper burial for their father and gave them a place to stay until they could decide what to do next.<\/p>\n<p>The decision wasn&rsquo;t difficult for Moses. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s now time for us to go to school,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why we decided to come to the camps, so I will get educated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19640\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19640 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Nearly 10,000 children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without parents. This World Refugee Day, meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2-360x203.png 360w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2-850x478.png 850w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2-1140x641.png 1140w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/06\/World-Refugee-Day-in-text-2-1280x720.png\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moses&rsquo;s 14-year-old sister Medina waits in line at the refugee camp. (&copy;2017 World Vision\/photo by Amy Parodi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Father&rsquo;s Day should be the holiday most on Moses&rsquo; mind right now, today&rsquo;s observance &mdash; World Refugee Day &mdash; better reflects his situation. He and his sisters are some of the <a href=\"\/about-us\/media-center\/world-vision-alarmed-staggering-number-recently-unaccompanied-separated-south-sudanese-children-seeking-refuge-uganda?campaign=10680863\">nearly 10,000 children who have crossed the border from South Sudan into Uganda without their parents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>World Vision looks after these unaccompanied children, both in refugee camps in Uganda as well as within South Sudan. Our staff works to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.worldvision.org\/content\/our-mother-died-because-she-ran-too-slow?campaign=10680863\">reunite children with relatives<\/a> if possible and create a network of foster parents who will care for them. But in the meantime, ready or not, Moses has had to step into the shoes of his father.<\/p>\n<p>The gravity of his new responsibility weighs heavily on him. &ldquo;I feel sorry because I&rsquo;m too young to care for them,&rdquo; Moses says. He&rsquo;s worried he won&rsquo;t be able to protect them. &ldquo;I think if robbers come to attack us at home, I have no force to fight them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He misses his father. &ldquo;I liked his stories,&rdquo; Moses remembers. &ldquo;When he came from his work, he used to entertain us. That&rsquo;s what I liked most about him: the way he would show love to us. [Now] I will just meet him through dreams.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>When you donate to help refugees, you make a lasting difference for vulnerable, displaced children. You&rsquo;ll be a valuable partner to help provide critical essentials like food and shelter, and for unaccompanied children like Moses, the support and care they&rsquo;re missing. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/world-vision-refugee-initiative?campaign=10680863\"><strong><em>Donate to our refugee response today.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10,000 refugee children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without their parents. Meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children who now must wear the shoes of a father for his sisters. 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