Hasan

Hasan is 5 years old and he came to Greece with his family, from Iraqi-Kurdistan, one year ago. In the beginning, Hasan and his family were staying in Skaramagas refugee centre, but now they live in an apartment, in Athens city centre. Hasan prefers to watch videos on the phone and he likes to listen to music and dance. He really likes playing football and he wants to go to school to learn more languages. “He is the youngest member of our family but also the toughest”, as his parents mention. Continue reading “Hasan”

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Zaman

Zaman is 8 years old. He came to Greece with his family, from Iraqi-Kurdistan, almost a year ago. In the beginning, they were staying in Skaramagas refugee centre. He likes going to school and speaking in English and Greek. In the future, he wants to become a doctor and a very famous person so that people will know his work. He likes painting and playing football, but mostly he misses his friends back home. Continue reading “Zaman”

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Vaman

Vaman is 10 years old. She came to Greece with her family, from Iraqi-Kurdistan, almost a year ago. In the beginning, they were staying in Skaramagas refugee centre for eleven months. In the future, she wants to become an English teacher, as she really likes to study and to learn foreign languages. She also likes painting and cycling. Continue reading “Vaman”

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Saman

Saman is 12 years old and he fled from Kurdistan. He came to Greece with his family one year ago. They were staying in Skaramagas refugee centre for eleven months. He has got three siblings and he really likes school. Continue reading “Saman”

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Hales

Hales fled from Iraqi-Kurdistan to Greece with her family one year ago. In the beginning, they were staying in Skaramagas refugee centre for eleven months, but now they live in Athens city centre, in an apartment that was provided by an NGO. They gave them home but they could not help her to enrol her children to school. Continue reading “Hales”

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Saleem

Saleem fled from Iraqi-Kurdistan to Greece with his family one year ago. He just wants his children to go to school and to find a job for himself in order to help his family, as their money is not enough. Continue reading “Saleem”

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Music helped me a lot to forget

My name is Miran. I come from Iraq and I am 17 years old. Ι left Iraq because Daesh attacked us. They wanted to kill us, so we left our country and we stayed in the mountains with my family and a lot of people for seven days, without food and water. Then, we went to Dohuk near Iraq. We stayed there for one year but there was not any organization to help us and we did not have money. So, we decided to leave Iraq because we could not stay there anymore. My family decided to come to Europe because in Europe there is humanity and there are also organizations that help people. Continue reading “Music helped me a lot to forget”

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Ahmed

Ahmed is 1 year old. His parents and his ten siblings fled from Iraqi-Kurdistan almost two years ago to come to Greece. Ahmed was born in Greece, in Skaramagas refugee centre. He is the youngest child of a family with eleven children. Continue reading “Ahmed”

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Yussef

Yussef is 6 years old and he fled from Iraqi-Kurdistan with his family and his ten siblings. He has been in Greece for one year and eight months. He comes from a family that has got eleven children and he is one of the nine boys. He really likes going to school and he has got a lot of friends to play there. His teacher said to his parents that he is a very good boy! Continue reading “Yussef”

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