James Garang has overcome extraordinary challenges to study economics at UMass Amherst. A recent news article described his ongoing odyssey and an upcoming event to support him.
Fundraiser aims to bring family together By LAURIE LOISEL, Daily Hampshire Gazette…
Garang is a former “Lost Boy” of Sudan and has been in the United States since being resettled here as a refugee in 2001.
He married his wife on a visit back to Sudan in June 2007, and their son was born after his return to Amherst, where he is a graduate student in economics at the University of Massachusetts.