Refugee Story

God knows what I am, so He will help me.

I want to be able to say, “This is MY house! We can stay forever here and nobody will tell me to go.”

My family looks to me to support them.

My story is very sad.

I turn off the video … so they won’t feel sad.

Now I am alone, living in a tent here in Greece.

In order to save our family, we were obliged to leave our country.

They took my uncle and he’s been gone for six years.

I said, “God, I left my country because I don’t want to die and now people are dying in the desert.”

After our father died, we had no one to protect us.

It is my wish to resume my education.

We left our country because the Taliban tried to kill my husband several times.

With the annexation of Crimea, there was a great deal of fear and fighting. Vitalii and Lidiia wanted a better life for their children.

We want to be somewhere that is far from danger, somewhere safe.

Then one of my friends got arrested in a park.

Wife, mother of three. Now a refugee seeking a better future for her family.

A husband, a father, a mechanic. Now a refugee.

I brought my daughters here for their sake

She was targeted by the Taliban for teaching school.

Tabish's journey to safety sounds like text from a fiction-thriller book.