Peter became a "Lost Boy." losing his family in conflict between the warring Sudanese government and the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army. After fleeing the violence and enduring a grueling journey. Peter ended up in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. living what he described as a hopeless life. While living in the Kakuma camp. Peter completed an application for refugee status in America. In the application. he had to write one page on why he wanted to go to America. He wrote of living a hopeless life in the refugee camp and of how he yearned to go to a place where he could restore his dignity and educate himselfthe United States of America. After two years. Peters application was approved. and he was resettled in my congressional district in Jacksonville.