Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Bol Bol Ruci Bol, Nyapeni Chou Doul, Charlene Turgeon, Katie Hatch, and Margie MacDonald at the New Sudan Education Initiative fundraiser.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Nyapeni Chou Doul at the First Church of the Nazarene, Portland.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Leap Ngoal trick-or-treating on Halloween at the door of a neighbor with his mother, Nyapeni Chou Doul.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Nyajal and Leap Ngoal playing a computer game.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Nyajal and Leap Ngoal outside in Munjoy Hill.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Nyajal Ngoal doing her homework on the computer in her mother's bedroom.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Nyapeni Chou Doul sitting on the couch in her living room and putting a hand on the head of her son, Leap "Charlie" Ngoal.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Nyapeni Chou Doul at work at the Portland Public Schools' Multilingual Office.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Leap "Charlie" Ngoal doing a headstand in the living room of his mother's Munjoy Hill apartment.

Kody Steffy captures a photograph of Leap Ngoal standing on the kitchen counter opening a cabinet door as his mother, Nyapeni Chou Doul, sits at the kitchen table in their Munjoy Hill apartment.

A refugee from Sudan, Nyapeni Chou Doul lives an entirely different life than she did in her native country. Kody Steffy captures the life of Doul, who lives in Portland.