Maketh Bul and his bride Aluet Diing Aruai exchanged vows on Saturday at Williamstown s Holy Trinity Anglican Church in front of around 700 relatives, friends, and community members.
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Nyok Achuoth Gor was just eight years old when he was forced to flee southern Sudan.
It was the late 1980s and the Second Sudanese Civil War had begun a few years earlier.
He was conscripted as a child soldier and separated from his mother and younger siblings.
He would spend decades in refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. I ended up in Ethiopia, and became part of a generation [of displaced youths] referred to as the lost boys of Sudan , Mr Gor told SBS News.
He came to Australia as a refugee a few years before the Sudan People s Liberation Movement and the Sudanese government signed a historic peace deal on 9 January 2005.
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Mother of six Achol Dut Ngor was looking for work for several months without luck. When she got an opportunity to work at a meat processing plant 450 km from home, she grabbed it with both hands. She left her children in the care of her eldest daughter in Melbourne and moved to Naracoorte in South Australia and took a 900-kilometre round trip every second weekend to be with her family.
“I needed a permanent job because I have the ability to work, but a lack of jobs close to home forced me to leave my children behind. I had to lock my house and took them to my eldest daughter,” she tells SBS Dinka.