About Refugees, By Refugees

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story

“I dreamed I would start a whole new life in the UK,” says Syrian refugee Mira

Naddaf (pseud, 26), who resettled in London in 2013 after fleeing “horrific” conflict in her home city of Homs. Although she feels Europe “has an environment that makes you thrive if you’re into diversity,” Mira says that overall the transition has been “bittersweet.” She says it was hard leaving her family in Syria, and since arriving in the UK she has struggled with her mental health. “I had this emotional block where I stopped feeling everything and anything,” she says. “It affects every aspect of your life.” Now a second year student in Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Mira says that living through the war has offered her a new perspective on her future. “I feel like a survivor and I have to take every chance to deserve that, the chance I was given,” she says. “My dream is to become a Neuroscientist… and implement all of my learning and all of my academic work and to a bigger cause.” Full Story