Refugee Journeys: Simon and Panther in their own words
When Panther got off the plane in New York City to record this interview, he still wasn't sure that it would really be his old, dear friend, and fellow Lost Boy, Simon meeting him there. It had been six years since these best friends— friends like brothers — had last seen each other, in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya where they found refuge after a treacherous journey over 1,000 miles together from Sudan — the home they'd been driven from over 20 years ago by a bloody civil war. Since then, Panther had been living in Boston, attending Brandeis University; Simon had made his new home in Atlanta, working toward his degree and U.S. citizenship.
It was really Simon, and after they broke out of a tight embrace and much laughter, they sat down to record this reunion, and to reflect on the meaning of friendship, freedom, and the word theyre called by: lost. As Simon puts it: You are never lost until you don't know where you came from.
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