"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.
This is an inspirational article from Deng Garang, New Sudan Vision, on one spectacular South Sudanese ever to contest a civil seat in Canada. Mr. Nuul Mayen, a South Sudanese lost boy who migrated to Canada in 1998, is now running a Language Center for Newcomers (LCFN) which provides training and education by teaching “…English as Second Language (ESL) skills to immigrants, newcomers and refugees communities and develop the skills, information, and support they need for entry and continued success in the Canadian labor market” under the slogan of ‘immigrants educating immigrants’
If indeed ‘action speak louder than words’–and surely it does–then Mr. Nuul Mayen, the South Sudanese trailblazer in Canada, has set the record rolling and it is now upon his fellow South Sudanese immigrants in the West, with ears and eyes, to brave the challenge and follow the pioneer in the daunting task of overcoming the oddness of being an immigrant in these unforgiving foreign lands where the struggle to stay above the waters is nothing less than a die-or-do situational match.
With more of his kind, the prospect of South Sudanese’ Obama emerging any time may soon outgrow the realm of private imagination and onto the public theater, thanks to the effort of one Nuul Mayen of Alberta, Canada.
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