Refugee lives
My hometown is Schahrerey.
I come from Iran, but my home is Afghanistan. I haven’t seen my country. I was born in Iran. About 2012 I left Iran because I couldn’t go to school there. Continue reading “I couldn’t go to school there”
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The war has begun. Then there was no more work and no safety. That’s why I left my home country. Continue reading “There was no more work”
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I’m from Goshta, Nangarhar. Goshta is a small village between the mountains. There’s a river. My village is located on the left side of the river – just like the old town in Cologne on the left side of the Rhine. We have many green fields and many large houses. We have no electricity and in the summer we have about 50 degrees. The summer is not easy to bear. Continue reading “They forced my father”
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Since I was born, I’ve only seen wars. Eight years of war between Iraq and Iran, followed by the Kuwait war, then the USA and Iraq. Then the civil war – war between themselves – and the IS war. Continue reading “Is there no other solution?”
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There are no words to describe my hometown, because it is more beautiful than all the other cities. I was born by the sea, where the sun shines everywhere. Where the people are open, where you can go on holiday, where you can go to school, university and hospital for free, where there are no homeless people and poor people, where nobody dies of hunger. This is my town Lattakia. Continue reading “Everything here is fine”
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My hometown Qamishli is a small town. Because of the civil war Quamishli is ruled by Kurds. It has the Kurdish name Rojava. The summers are very hot and dry. But in winter it is very wet. There is not far away the national airport. From there you can fly directly to Damascus. Continue reading “We moved a lot”
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I’m from Shiraz, Iran. I left my home country on 1.12.2015 because I changed my religion.
When I was five years old, my father and mother got divorced. After three years my mum got married and I stayed with my grandparents until I was 20 years old. Because my grandfather died and my stepfather said that I had to live with them, I moved to my mother’s house. Continue reading “I can now calmly live my religion”
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I’m from Aleppo. Aleppo is a beautiful city. I left home with my children 17 years ago because my husband lived in Germany. Continue reading “I am pleased in Germany”
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Kabul is my hometown. When I was little until I grew up, I always lived in a place in Kabul. That’s why I like Kabul so much. I went to school there and studied agriculture for two years. My siblings were also there in school, university and work. Continue reading “Germany has advantages and disadvantages”
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My homeland is very beautiful, has many sights and many names: e. g. Alhadba or Umalrabinen or Nenau. My homeland has beautiful nature and the nature is celebrated every spring. Many people from different religions live in my homeland, so there are different religious houses: e. g. a church, or a mosque or Hussainiya, Ialisch. Continue reading “Freedom is very important to me”
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