Santino, a lost boy

The "Lost Boys" life had been far from perfect, orphaned at young ages, forced to migrate and excluded. Their journey was hard and many did not survive because of the attacks from wildlife, starvation and heat from the African sun. Life at the Refugee Camps was not much better, there was still a lack of food, resources, and it was over populated. All they wanted was a chance at a better life, what they believe they would achieve in their new journey to America, where associations give lost boys the chance to start over. (an example being CALBOS)

America was nothing like what the lost boy Santino planned it to be. He struggles with money, jobs, education, mixing with other cultures and supporting himself. When the lost boys came to America they were not offered high paying jobs, Santino struggled with at the beginning with his job because he was not introduce to the technology back at the refugee camp that was used in his new work. Not only did Santino have to support himself but he also had to support his "brothers" and at one point was the only person paying full rent. Santino was not offered the opportunity to go to school because even though the lost boys ages were not known, his guessed age was not eligible for high school. Santino enrolled himself in a home video course for electricians hoping to get some sort of an education and a better job. Santino was not mixing with other cultures and instead makes close friends with the other lost boys, goes to gatherings to celebrate his religion and camp for lost boys of Sudan. Santino opens up about his struggle with feeding himself paying the rent and keeping himself alive and which also motivates him into enrolling in the home video course for electricians to sustain a better job and therefore more money. Santino went to America looking for a better life and even compares the journey to America like the "journey to heaven" but after getting there soon realizes his new life in America is far from it.