Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard

Beetles and angels: The outstanding journey from refugee camps to Harvard's boys is a memoir of Serra Maui's "Mawi" Asgedom. Mawi overcame the best areas of refugees in Africa, talked about a number of unfavorable factors to enter the American society and eventually graduated from Harvard University with the highest honor in 1999. Through Maui's story, the book explores the experience of American refugees. Ma Wei and his family, born in Adivala in Ethiopia in September 1979, fled Ethiopia as a result of the civil war. The Ethiopian family moved to a refugee camp in Sudan. Three years later, with the help of a Christian non-profit organization in the USA called World Relief, the family of Mawi eventually got the news of a move to change his life from Sudanese refugee camp to American permanent residence.

Kakuma refugee camp is located in the northwestern part of Kenya. Camp was founded in 1992, after the arrival of "lost Sudanese boys". In that year, after the collapse of the Ethiopian government, many Ethiopian refugees fled from their country. Somalia has also experienced high levels of anxiety and civil war, leading to people's escape. Due to the influx of new immigrants in 2014, Kakuma exceeded the capacity of 58,000 people, resulting in crowded departments. After negotiations between UNHCR, the central government, the Turkana county government and the host community, a new village was found in Kalobeyei, 25 km from the town of Kakuma.

Initially, most of the boys in flight went to Ethiopian refugee camps until the boys could flee again to another refugee camp called Kakuma in Kenya in the 1991 war. The disappearance of missing boys at refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya was welcomed at varying degrees. It is difficult for refugee camps to provide enough food to hundreds of boys arriving everyday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and related non-governmental organizations are often restricted from meeting people's needs. The problem peculiar to the story of "Lost Boys" is how the age and family composition of the camp changes with the influx of young people. The boy who got lost went camping without parental or adult supervision. They need immediate housing education and school education, which changes the allocation of resources in camps.