[1] Dau told The 700 Club, "There were so many problems prevailing in our surrounding; like, starvation, thirst, the fear of being killed by other local people or the wild animals.
"[2] Dau stayed in a refugee camp in Ethiopia for four years, but when civil war broke out in the region, he was once again forced to flee.
As one of thousands of "Lost Boys of Sudan," Dau wandered hundreds of miles and faced disease, starvation, animal attacks and violence until arriving in Kenya.
While living in the Kakuma refugee camp, he attended school for the first time and sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exam in 2000.
[5] His memoir, also titled God Grew Tired of Us, was co-authored with Michael Sweeney and released in January 2007 by National Geographic Press.