Leave A Legacy Supporter, Phillips Bragg

June 24th, 2011 by admin in Featured

Leave A Legacy supporter, Phillips Bragg, featured in Wake Forest Magazine for his efforts to build a school in Sudan.

Lubo’s Dream – Wake Foresters and a Lost Boy wage ‘peace through education’ for the new Sudan

CHARLOTTE – When the Lost Boys of Sudan fled for their lives, away from torched huts and murdered parents, dodging government militia from Khartoum, swimming deep underwater to avoid the unblinking gaze of crocodiles, inching past lions in thorn-tree scrublands and suffering such thirst that at times urine sufficed for water, Phillips Bragg (’93) knew nothing of their plight. He finds it astonishing that in 1991 he was busy choosing his English major at Wake Forest while Lost Boy James Lubo Mijak was struggling to survive in a southern Sudan camp for displaced persons called Pochalla.  Read More

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