Baltimore’s Stoop Stories is a 12-year-old live show and podcast wherein people from all walks of life tell their tales. The premise is simple: Everyone has a story. Few have a such a horrific, heartbreaking, but yet inspiring story as the one told by Jacob Atem. He was born in a part of Sudan that is now an independent country of South Sudan. He now works at postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Humanitarian Health. As just a little boy, he had to drink his own urine, because that was the only thing that was available. He was orphaned in the civil war of the 1900s. Him and others fled the country on foot via arduous cross-country treks and spent years in refugee camps. His life was not all that good, but came to its worst at the age of 7. A militia had struck his town, killing his parents, enslaving his sisters and nieces, and they had a lack of food and beverage. Growing up for him wasn’t so normal or easy that it would be for a regular human being.

I choose this article, because I feel that this something people should read and pay attention to. Things like this tend to get ignored by the news and press. You can look on the news right now and this wouldn’t be found. If this happened before, I’m pretty sure it could still be happening now. Situations like this should be taken upon and something should be done. This is important to society, because we can see that not everyone has a good past just because you’re rich and successful. Everyone isn’t spoon fed just because they have an amazing come up.

One Question : How exactly did he get to where he is now, like how did he not get caught or die from starvation?