Sitting outside a makeshift tent in the Bidi Bidi refugee camp in northern Uganda, 12-year-old Josephat Bieli was dusty and tired. He said he had trekked 80 miles by himself from Yei in South Sudan to the camp to escape his country’s civil war.
“Solders burned down our home — we had to escape in different directions to save our lives,” Josephat said. “I don’t know where my parents and siblings are. I have not seen them since the attack.”
