Gabriel Bol Deng doesn’t need to speak after showings of a film that documents his return to his native Sudan.

“There is no way you can see this movie and not want to help,” he said of the imagery in “Rebuilding Hope,” which will be screened in Hamilton and Cazenovia this week. “The suffering, the need for water, education, a better way of living. The film can speak for itself.”

Deng was 10 years old when militants attacked his village in southern Sudan. Unaware of the fate or whereabouts of his parents or siblings, Deng began a four-month journey with no shoes and only the clothes on his back, forging the Nile River and crossing 1,000 miles of harsh desert with fellow refugees.

Written by Alaina Potrikus / The Post-Standard

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