Cousins Zainab and Farsidheh fled to Jordan with their families after their house in Daraa, Syria, was burnt to the ground.
After missing more than a year of their education, they finally found places at a school but couldn’t afford the public transport to get there. So they joined up with other refugee girls and their mothers in the neighbourhood to rent their own small bus.
Farsidheh wants to become a doctor. “I have seen so many people suffer,” she says. “I want to come up with solutions; I want to help. I don’t want to feel powerless.”
After missing more than a year of their education, they finally found places at a school but couldn’t afford the public transport to get there. So they joined up with other refugee girls and their mothers in the neighbourhood to rent their own small bus.
Farsidheh wants to become a doctor. “I have seen so many people suffer,” she says. “I want to come up with solutions; I want to help. I don’t want to feel powerless.”
Two students doing schoolwork
“I have seen so many people suffer. I want to come up with solutions; I want to help.” Farsidheh, 15 In the three years since Syria’s brutal civil war began, the efforts of ordinary Syrians to support each other and rebuild their lives have often been overlooked. Here we highlight some of hopeful stories that rarely make the headlines.
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