I remember UNHCR field staff on the ground in Sudan, providing basic needs to those of us seeking aid. To this day, the sight of UNHCR’s blue logo still invokes in me a sense of comfort, of ...
yet Alek Wek says she still gets freaked out when people stare at her in the street. "I look like any other Dinka girl from the Sudan," she says. "I never imagined that somebody would ever look at ...
Alek Wek is a model who spent years of her life fleeing from civil war in South Sudan. She talks to Anne Soy about being a model, life as a refugee and her father's lessons.