Recently, Jacob got a chance to speak at Oakland University in Oakland, Mich. He was featured in The Oakland Post.
Oakland University students and faculty celebrated the first Step Up! Festival on Saturday, April 5 to help raise awareness and money for the crisis in Darfur.
The event, co-sponsored by Hand In Hand and OU’s Anthropology Club, featured a performance by Akwaaba Drum Ensemble. There was also a “garage sale” fundraiser held, which included the silent-auctioning of autographed items sent by prominent people like Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, rock band Dashboard Confessional and comedian Rob Paravonian.
However, the main features of the evening were the award-winning documentary “God Grew Tired of Us: The Lost Boys of Sudan” and guest-speaker Jacob Atem, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan who were invited to immigrate to America after being displaced from his home in South Sudan as a young boy.
umm hey my name is samantha farmer umm one of the lost boys came to my school today march 23,2009 and talked to us aabout the sothern sudan health care organization. I was very impressed with the speech he told us. I was wondering if u could sent me some info because I would LOVE to help with this organization.
oh yeah and just to tell you my hight school (mason high school) is doing a penny war for ur organization we are trying to rasie a lot of money to help.
Thanks, Samantha
hey I’m kasey and i got to hear Jocob talk at HOSA 09. I was so moved I decided to get my home school involved.