“From crocodile in the water to hyenas, python, I could be eaten by lions, to the actual soldiers – you could be shot,” Rebecca Deng said. “You can die in so many ways. How I make it out there I still have to think about it.”

Rebecca Deng was living a peaceful life in the late 80s as a child of the Dinka tribe in southern Sudan. She knew nothing of the civil war that was ravaging her country – until one fateful day.

“It was just like, ‘Boom!’ Gunshot everywhere, AK-47. So, we just ran.”

Rebecca’s village was decimated. Her father, a Commander in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, died trying to protect their people. Her mother also perished in the chaos. With the war hot on their heels, her uncle took 5-year-old Rebecca into the dense forest.

“It was rainy season, so there was a flood

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