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Mock refugee camp brings world issues home at U of S

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World University Service of Canada volunteers sit inside a tent in a mock refugee camp at the University of Saskatchewan.

By Lasia Kretzel

The tents set up in Riel Place at the University of Saskatchewan remind Lorot Michael of home. 

The South Sudan refugee spent 20 years growing up in a refugee camp, several years of which were in an actual canvas tent. His family still lives there.
 
"We didn't have good medical facilities, schools, no opportunities to go to college," he said. "It's survival. You don't have anything. You just have what you have."
 
His family fled South Sudan when Michael was... // Read Full Article


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