Former refugee to top model: Deng returns favour

By Amy Croffey
Updated December 1 2017 - 9:53am, first published November 26 2017 - 1:48am

As a child she fled a war in Sudan, spent three years in a Kenyan refugee camp where her mother died of malaria and moved to Australia with her seven siblings as a refugee - and while Ajak Deng has gone through more in her 27 years than most should ever have to endure in a lifetime, she has a wholly "glass half full" approach to life.

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