Cousins Peter Madit and Paul Dador found that out the hard way. They are the first of about 20 Sudanese refugees who will be coming to the area with the help of World Relief. But after a lifetime of hardship, adjusting to the weather is the least of their worries. They stayed with the Fischers a few weeks before moving to their own apartment in Wheaton Saturday. They are reluctant to talk about the details of their past.
Some memories are just too painful.
Sudan has been torn apart by a civil war that has killed 2 million Sudanese, mostly Christians in the south - including their parents. That family we have forgotten now. Just what happened to the families of Madit and Dador is unclear, but in 1988, when they were only 9 and 8 years old, they left their village and banded together with hundreds of other children orphaned by the war. The group walked for months until reaching a refugee camp in Ethiopia. But then war erupted in Ethiopia and they were forced back into Sudan.