Celebrate International Women’s Day by attending Elevate Her: Empower, Inspire, Achieve with the International Rescue Committee and Operation Smile on March 7!
An international nonprofit providing critical mental health support and healing care to refugees and torture survivors, helping them rebuild their lives and restore their hope.
I was working as a teacher in Syria In 2015. One day in June, on my way to buy some gifts for my students, I was caught by the regime forces and detained for 10 days. Before this, my family and I lived happily together. I’m a university graduate and worked as a teacher for six years. I had many friends and was a social person. Then, our neighbors’ house was bombed and demolished. My sister, brother and father died in the bombing. Once I was released from detainment, they imposed a one-month travel restriction on me, and I couldn’t leave the country. My mother and the sisters who survived the bombing had already fled to Jordan, so after waiting 30 days, I fled to Jordan to follow my surviving family. When I arrived, I was sent to a refugee camp for two months. After that, I moved to Jerash...