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World: Running her way from refugee camp to Rio: Olympics' first refugee team

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Source: Christian Science Monitor
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, World

By Ryan Lenora Brown

Anjelina Nadai of South Sudan, who spent much of her childhood in a Kenyan refugee camp, is one of 10 refugees named today to the Olympic refugee team.

Johannesburg, South Africa; and Ngong, Kenya — When Anjelina Nadai started running 15 years ago, as a young girl, it wasn’t the Olympics she was dreaming of. In fact, she had never even heard of the Olympics. She ran simply to finish her chores more quickly.

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