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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 2010
Page
6
Dewtang Dentang recounts fleeing Sudan after his father was killed. He and his mother and sister walked to Maywut, joining about 100 others in a large tent for nine months. Food was scarce and danger lingered as another massacre loomed, prompting a stay that reshaped his path to Baytown Christian Academy.
Donations for Dewtang’s living and tuition costs are requested through the Dewtang assistance fund at Alliance Bible Church in Baytown and the Baytown Christian Foundation. Dewtang and family fled Maywat for Ethiopia, traveling at night to avoid soldiers, eventually reaching Gambella refugee camp where UN officials moved them to a train and a camp, facing monthly food rations and ongoing hardship.
Dentang, once in a Sudanese refugee camp with no running water or toilets, found an opportunity through basketball. A cousin’s scholarship and a 1-20 student visa led him to Academy in Florida, then Baytown based BCA, where he now pursues high school graduation and hopes for a college basketball scholarship.
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