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Australian university advert about an African refugee tugs at the heartstrings [VIDEO]

WATCH: Sometimes advertisements just get it right... and get the tears rolling.

Sarah Adams by Sarah Adams
23-01-2016 06:59
in Video

This is not your typical university ad featuring sparkling, bright students achieving wonderful things.

This advert, created by Western Sydney University tells the story of Deng Thiak Adut, a Sudanese child soldier brought into Australia as a refugee where he won a scholarship and eventually became a lawyer.

Western Sydney University has told Adut’s story in more detail:

“In 1985, the Sudanese government began destroying villages eventually leading to the rise of the People’s Liberation Army. Two years later, six-year old Deng Thiak Adut was taken away from his family’s banana farm in South Sudan and conscripted into the Army.

After undergoing military training, several years of army service and witnessing numerous atrocities, Deng was still a boy when he was shot in the back while running through a village.

A further two years later, a chance meeting led to Deng reuniting with his brother who helped smuggle him out of the country by hiding him in a corn sack on the back of a truck. The two brothers befriended an Australian family and eventually arrived as refugees in 1998.

After working at a local service station to learn English, Deng enrolled at TAFE and completed his Advanced Diploma in Accounting before deciding to study law. In 2005 he enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws at Western Sydney University and became the first person in his family to graduate with a law degree.

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Deng now works as a lawyer in Bankstown, where he is determined to ensure that other Sudanese refugees have the legal advice and support they need before entering the court system.”

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