“I wish we lived in a world where we don't have to teach empathy but that's why I created my game. It's a game that is more than about just being a refugee.”
Lual Mayen was 12 years old when he saw a computer for the first time. Standing in a queue at a UN registration centre in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda, he was fascinated by the device and thought it must have fallen from heaven. He pleaded with his mother for one, but she could barely afford enough food to feed her family, how could she possibly buy a laptop.
In 1993, Lual’s family fled their home in war-torn South Sudan during the country’s decades-long civil war. Amidst the chaos, his parents were separated. Lual’s mother, Nyantet Daruka, single-handedly trekked 250 miles to refuge with her children and gave birth to Lual on the way. He was two years old when he met his father for the first time after the family finally found each other.
Working as a seamstress in the camp, Nyantet secretly saved her income for years, to give her son 300 dollars to buy a laptop. Lual cried when he received his gift. “I did not have a lot of opportunities until my mother invested in me, she saw something in me,” he told Scenes.
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