Our first immigration story features Mohamed Yaaqoub, who escaped his home in Darfur when it was attacked in 2004 by the Janjaweed militia and spent nearly a decade on a journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Wichita.
Follow Mohamed Yaaqoub's immigration journey by clicking on the arrows in the StoryMap below.
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The National Endowment for the Arts' "Big Read" looks to encourage literacy by holding community events around the country celebrating a single book each year. This year's book selection is Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, which follows a nineteen-year-old woman who travels to the United States to bring back seven men--including her father--to help defend her Mexican village from danger. Of course, the stories of people who come to this country are wide and varied, and many of those stories live right here in Wichita. Over the next few weeks, we're featuring some of those stories.