We survived….
The war in South Sudan
Uganda 🇺🇬 “I went from earning a living in South Sudan in a white collar job in the bank to being a hawker in the streets”
An attack by rebels
South Sudan 🇸🇸 “When I was going to school, my father would drop me there on a motorcycle”
The war in Syria
Canada 🇨🇦 “God willing, I can stand on my own two feet and keep a good income flowing for my family"
The conflict in Kashmir
India 🇮🇳 “I do not get fired at but there are people who get fired at, younger than me”
Being smuggled out of Syria
Germany 🇩🇪 “We talked to a smuggler and he got us onto a rubber boat to Greece”
Being stateless
Canada 🇨🇦 “As bad as white supremacy is in the place that I live in, we have an alternative, we can live together, we can coexist”
Losing my family
Uganda 🇺🇬 “My children were killed in the conflict, one this year and another last year”
As a wife of a rebel leader
Uganda 🇺🇬 “To my utter shock, the rebel leader decided that I would be like a wife to him”
Being a child soldier
Liberia 🇱🇷 “Both my parents had been killed because my father, an ex-military man, has refused to join the army”