These three Olympic athletes are the first refugee athletes to be granted postsecondary scholarships in another country under a new program
Teddy Katz is a freelance Canadian journalist who was the media attaché for the Refugee Paralympic Team last summer at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
Ms. Lokonyen spent more than 14 years in the camp, where she developed a love of soccer. She often snuck out of the house to play with the boys over the objections of her father, who felt that girls shouldn’t participate in sports. “They say when you educate a girl, you educate a whole nation,” she said. “All the [female] children around the world should be given the same rights as men to go to school. You can become a doctor and become the leaders of tomorrow and inspire other women around the world.”Mr. Chiengjiek is all too familiar with overcoming adversity. He fled South Sudan when he was 13 to avoid being kidnapped after his father was killed in the war and he faced pressure to become a child soldier.
At Sheridan, he is studying public and private investigation and hopes to work with displaced people. The oldest of five children, and the only male, Mr. Chiengjiek said he feels extra pressure to excel in his studies to be able to help his family and those he left behind in the Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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