Madut - Journey to Canada: Stories of Refugees

Madut, a former Sudanese refugee and now proud Canadian citizen, shares his inspirational journey.

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Descriptive Transcript: Madut – Journey to Canada: Stories of Refugees

Video length: 50 seconds

Urban music plays in the background while a video montage is shown of a dark sky with black windy clouds. The sky opens up to reveal sunlight hidden behind.

The screen turns from daylight to a white background.

Gold text displays: “Canada’s Humanitarian Tradition” with a red Canadian maple leaf.

A man appears on screen in an office setting.

Madut (Policy Analyst): And the government decided to have the counterinsurgency campaign, and the goal was to burn down villages to destroy food, destroy cattle, to ensure that everyone would have no food. So we were like the first casualties of that. Had I not gone to school in the camp, I would have never competed for a student refugee program. We were issued our visas to come to Canada. When I got my citizenship, I knew that now I have a state that can really stand up for me.

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Text displays in white font: “To learn more: Canada/ca.refugees”