Azhar’s story: “For a 12-year-old girl, I felt my future was lost.”

In the long run, I needed to drop out of college.

Once I first entered college, in fact, I wished to make mates, to be taught grammar. However they’d classes—Jordanians, Syrians, Palestinians—and everybody, even the lecturers, have been saying, “Take a look at her, take heed to how she speaks, her accent. She’s Syrian. We do not have to get her books. Go purchase your self books.”

So I put a barrier between me and them. I made a decision to not speak to anybody. I took the final workplace. I took the final stairs. I did not wish to speak to anybody or see anybody, even the lecturers. If anybody at school laughed, I assumed they have been laughing at me, from how I seemed, what my accent seemed like. Even after I wished to take part, I used to be fearful about how loud I might sound, about my accent, so I attempted to alter my tone, to talk softly, as a result of I used to be being bullied.

I ended speaking. I do not wish to be with anybody.

For a 12-year-old woman, I felt like my future was misplaced.

In the long run, I needed to drop out of college attributable to my household’s monetary circumstances.

Baba suffers from epileptic seizures. He has a mind tumor. The primary yr we got here to Jordan, he tried to work in a workshop, however he had a seizure and there was a nail. He obtained a nail in his eye.

So, as a substitute of simply spells, we had two issues – his eye and his spells.

My mom is taken into account the top of the household now. She’s attempting to take accountability for all of us, in addition to my older brother who’s a mechanic, but it surely’s laborious. We’re nonetheless attempting to chop bills.

My youthful brother is a spoiled brat now. He has nothing to do.