(3/3) In the distance, we could see an island, and then the port of a tiny village. The fisherman had already made a few phone calls along the way and when we got there, after one or two hours, hundreds of people had gathered. They put us in a big room, and police and...
(2/3) The next time, there were four big buses full of people, and we drove from Jakarta all the way to Surabaya, which is a 24 hour drive. When we arrived, I actually saw a boat for the first time. It was a scary looking boat, wooden and very old, and it was big –...
(1/3) I was involved in the Iranian Green Movement or Persian Spring. We believed in freedom, and were protesting for weeks against what we believed was a rigged election. First, one of my friends got shot by the militia. Then, a few of my friends were arrested, and...
My Dad was killed and my 7 year old sister was abducted when our village was attacked. But my mother, my second sister and I got away together. We walked for a long time to get out of South Sudan. For two years, we trekked, then rested for a few days, then walked...
When I was a baby, we had to flee Ethiopia because the regime started making threats against my father and his family. We are from the Oromo ethnic group, which have been persecuted for a long time, and my father was a political activist. Life in Djibouti, the...
