Aid and Care exists because of the vision of one person, Dominic Diing, a young man who, as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, survived unimaginable hardships and genocides as a child and adolescent. Dominic came to Syracuse New York as a refugee in 2001. Dominic’s aspiration of founding AID & CARE standing for Assisting Individual in Distress = AID  and Children Assistance and Reach-out to Everyone = CARE came about when he dreamt that someone appeared to him at the middle of the night while he was sleeping on the campus of Niagara University ." Wake up, wake up and turn on the TV", Said voice. He immediately sat up in his bed and turned on the TV and right on the screen was feed the Child Documentary showing about the suffering and dying people in Southern Sudan as the result of hunger, diseases, and disasters. He watched Feed Children Documentary showing that children and women particularly were massively suffering and dying. 

    Had he seen that the tears just came down his face and that dream strengthened his vision to establish the process of the aid organization what becomes today Aid and Care in a matter of 6 months after his graduation.  His dream focuses on restoring and rebuilding hope for the orphans, abandoned children and people in Africa starting Southern Sudan. Dominic started up speaking on the Niagara University's campus spreading the word and his dreamt to help his people in Southern Sudan. He arose from the deprivation and harrowing escape he experienced, and many people in the US have been inspired by his compelling story to join in his vision.

   Dominic, a member of the Dinka tribe, was born in Makuac village, Aweil in Southern Sudan.  When insurgents the combination Arabs in North, Militia from West-Darfur,  and East supported by the Islamic Government Regime in Khartoum, ravaged his village, burning everything in sight, taking children and slaughtering people, including most of Dominic’s family (He called this Hidden Genocide in South). Dominic , was a seven-year-old child fled on foot with thousands of other boys to Ethiopia, barely surviving the fourteen-month trekk. With little to eat and dangers from soldiers, fatigue, and wild animals, many of the boys did not make it included his siblings. In a camp of 45,000 boys in Ethiopia, life did not improve much, as food proved to be scarce if available at all, and again many of the boys did not survive. Their best hope lay in their makeshift outdoor school, where they received a rudimentary education. By 1991, when Ethiopia forced them to leave, they again were on the run, with the support of soldiers from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Had no water to drink resulted in many thousands boys died again.

   After some time on the Sudanese border, they started another trek, barefoot in the scorching heat, to a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. The food rations were given once every two weeks that would last no more than three days out of seven days of the week. The remaining days in camps are called “black days” because they spend them with no food, concentrating on school lessons proved impossible. Many children, boys, and women died each day in the camp. Of his smartness at school, as soon as he graduated from secondary school, Dominic began teaching at age 18 in Kakuma refugee schools in 1998. Dominic knew that he needed more education, but hardly more education was available in the camp. He tried his best to apply for study distance learning at South Africa University College of Economics and got enrolled in 2000. Paying that college was the most expensive one in his life. Considering  the importance of education to him,  he began paying the college a portion from his monthly incentives $ 75(equivalent to Ksh=3500) to each teacher in the camp.

   Unlike many Sudanese refugees in the US, he attended community college just in 37 days of his arrival in the U.S. He studied industrial and blue reading certificate. After finishing his certificate Dominic kept his dream of an education alive, immediately attended Syracuse University in 2002. At junior year he transferred to Niagara University where he completed his bachelors degree in Commerce and minor in education.  He is currently pursuing the master of education at American Public University. Dominic dreams in education are to pursue more education if financial opportunity allows him to do so. Dominic believes that education is the master key of every door." Education mothers and fathers un-parented child; education eradicates poverty, education means long lasting peace and is a solution to wars, education defines children's future; every child in the world must have education opportunity", he described.  

   For more than 20 years, Dominic Diing, has never reunited with his family but only he met his mother and other family members on the phone calls. As friendly as you may not know his friends are always questioning Dominic. " Have you returned home since you escaped your country?"

His answer is like " No, not yet. I will feel a shame if I back home I called "Arising Villages from the Death", with empty hands, it will be really bad visit because they expect me to come with something. I hope I will do something before I go back there. I know I will do that if you support me". Before the war broke out in my country, my father was a leader and my mother was a humble mother and leader as well. Even to day! So she expects me to do something for her adopted children and the whole village before I come there. I know it is tough thing to do but I always have hope and encourage doing things. I hope I will do it. You too can help me." He said.  

   Dominic has a unique story on the other end besides founding AID and CARE.  His mother, whom he describes as one of the poorest women in his village has adopted 34-orphaned children (9 from relatives and others from unknown parents). Several of them have health problems that need quick attention. Dominic supports those orphans whom he described “my good brothers and sisters”. His mother, siblings, relatives, and a 34 orphan depends supports with %15 of low income he earns from his job. That commitment of 15% of his paycheck is sent to his mother every month to support living standard, treatments and education for the children in Uganda, Kenya and Southern Sudan.