Buey Ray Tut was born in Southern Sudan during the deadly civil war without running water and electricity. Tut and his family escaped the war and fled to neighboring Ethiopia in the early 1990's. At about 10 years old his family moved to Omaha Nebraska to give him and his four siblings a better future. Through determination and hard work, Tut became the newest member of the Omaha Public Library Board, becoming the first South Sundanese refugee appointed to a city government board at the age of 23. For a boy who never owned a book of his own, it is remarkable that Tut is part of government board overseeing 12 public libraries. He did not stop there, in 2006 Tut co-founded Aqua-Africa with Jacob Khol. Aqua-Africa is an organization that aims to provide safe drinking water to impoverished villages of Southern Sudan. The relief project caught the attention of Omaha's mayer, Jim Suttle. Tut was later honored by the Midlands Business Journal as an outstanding entrepreneur under age of 40, with the Mayor in the audience watching proudly. The Republic of South Sudan is proud to have given birth to a future world leader.Aqua-Africa: http://www.aqua-africa.org/Home_Page.html
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