Refugee lives
My name is Bave and I am a kurd from Qamishli in Syria. My life was very good before the war. I went to school as usual and went out with my friends. Our life was much nicer than life in Europe. The war came and destroyed our whole life. It was a shock.
Continue reading ““I had to experience the winter and it was very cold””
Dublin Core: Language: sv Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden
My name is Ali and I’m 17 years old. I’m from Afghanistan and I’m a refugee in Sweden. First of all, let me start by telling you why people flee from their home countries. One of the reasons may be that some people lack human rights. In Afghanistan, there was a war that lasted for several years. The war became worse during the summer, so that’s why I left my family at the age of 13. Continue reading ““We risked our lives to come here””
Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden
My name is Sara and I come from Syria. I came to Sweden 1.5 years ago.
In Syria, I worked as a teacher for 27 years. We lived in a refugee camp in Damascus but we decided to move to another area. After some time it became insecure to stay there, so we decided to escape.
Continue reading ““The smugglers treated us very badly””
Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden
My name is Ali, I’m 27 years old and come from Baghdad.
I came to Sweden 1,5 years ago. I lived a stable life in Irak, exept for the last two years. I would have stayed in my country, but there were to many bombs and insecurity. I was persecuted by a group of people belonging to the government and the situation was getting worse.
Continue reading ““Suddenly a man pushed me out of the boat””
Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden