Refugee Story

During the writer’s fortnight, I attended 4 different stories from guest speakers. I went to a talk about a staff members refugee story. Her story was about how she had to migrate from her home in South Sudan to Khartoum at the mere age of 2. When she was 6 she felt like she was stripped of her identity as she has to move to a refugee camp in Northern Uganda to help her grandmother. She left with her 18-year-old aunt and this is when she started to take care of her family. She stayed in that refugee camp for 6 years, health care and education was very basic as she had to learn under a tree with only a blackboard in front of them. Although the amenities and life quality was basic, her grandmother made her feel like she had everything that she needed. When she was 12 her mother and her family moved to the USA there was always a distance between her and her peers as she was labelled “the refugee girl”. This pushed me to wonder is someone could ever leave their refugee status and become a “normal” person again.

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