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Djwar Ahmad, 27, brother of Shiyar Ahmad from Kobani, Syria.

My life was easy before the war. I have some learning difficulties, so learning was not easy for me so I lived with my family. My family took care of me since I could not get higher schooling.
My brother sent for me from Libya (where he was living at the time) and then helped come to Denmark because of the war. Once in the asylum centre in Denmark, they took me to the doctor, first in Jylland and then in Bornholm. I need some help to understand why it has been so difficult for me to learn. They gave me some sort of pension and I got to work at a farm.
I have moved from place to place in Denmark and now live in Haslev in Faxe Municipality where I live with brother.

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Shiyar Ahmad, 26 years old, Kurd from Kobani

I had a good life before the war. I worked with metal, welding iron and steel, and I worked laying pipes into the ground. Things like sewage pipes.
I studies in Syria up until the 9th grade. I then travelled to Libya and worked there with my father with metal. There were not that many jobs in Kobani, so I spent 6 months working in Libya and 6 months in Syria. I have also been married twice now and have a child.

We escaped the war from Syria, to Lybia and then to Italy and then Denmark. Life in Denmark is not easy. I had a job in a kitchen but now I am unemployed. There are many laws that are prejudiced against refugees. For example, we cannot get a translator if we are at the hospital. What if the doctor doesn’t understand me?

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