According to Joyce, however, the camp was not safe at all.  Whilst there Joyce witnessed her uncle being beaten to death and in 1997 Joyce was shot four times in the arm, shoulder, thigh and leg.  After several months in hospital Joyce was released and she and her siblings were granted resettlement in Australia.

In November 2003 at an English language training college in Melbourne Joyce read a poster urging people who had lost contact with family due to conflict to contact Australian Red Cross.

Joyce called Australian Red Cross who began searching for her parents through the International Red Cross and Red Crescent network. They were located in a remote rural area of South Sudan.  In June 2004 family contact was resumed when Australian Red Cross delivered a Red Cross message, an unsealed letter containing family news.  This was Joyce’s first communication with her parents for over a decade.

'I went to Australian Red Cross and asked if they could find my parents, I want to tell them that we are very happy now.  Red Cross located them and they sent us a message, I was so pleased, at last my heart is now at peace', said Joyce.