for those parents who can't come here. >> reporter: lopez lomong was born in a small village in sudan. when he was six, rebels snatched him from his mother's arms during a church service. >> i was dragged with a big guy and there were a lot of guns and bullets around him and thrown in a truck. >> reporter: he was imprisoned at a rebel camp where he watched other young captives die. that's when he and three other boys planned their escape. >> they told me, hey, tonight we're going to see your mom again. >> reporter: in the dead of the night, lopez slipped through a prison fence and ran for his life. >> we were trying to, like, run into the woods, through the savannah, in the tall grass, like that. because we don't want anybody to be able to see us above, or on the hills. and we never had any food along the way. we just had fruits. >> reporter: three days and 40 miles later, the kenyan border patrol found little lopez and took him to a refugee camp. it was his home for the next 10 years. his new enemies became disease, hunger, and dispair. lopez attended church services. he longed for a