“My dream… [was to] get happy and excited and more meet peoples,” says Dlbar

Omar (10), a refugee from Syria who now lives in Edinburgh with her parents and siblings. Dlbar says she is “happy in Scotland” but misses her friends. In Syria, “I was like really scared and sad,” she says. Dlbar explains that the family could not leave their home after 6pm: “If you go outside you will go in a jail. It’s real bad.” On arriving in Scotland, she recalls: “it was really exciting you can go whatever time is it.” While happy to be going to school, not speaking English made making friends difficult: “If I can’t talk English, they’ll never play with me.” As well as speaking English, she wanted to dance: “I saw a lot of pupils are like dancing. I was like saying, OK, I wanna dance.” Now she practices dancing with her brother and friends while watching videos on Tiktok. “My dream is like, I want to be a dancer,” she says. “With a lot of people being a dancer with me and exciting dance time.” Full Story

“My dream… [was to] get happy and excited and more meet peoples,” says Dlbar

Omar (10), a refugee from Syria who now lives in Edinburgh with her parents and siblings. Dlbar says she is “happy in Scotland” but misses her friends. In Syria, “I was like really scared and sad,” she says. Dlbar explains that the family could not leave their home after 6pm: “If you go outside you will go in a jail. It’s real bad.” On arriving in Scotland, she recalls: “it was really exciting you can go whatever time is it.” While happy to be going to school, not speaking English made making friends difficult: “If I can’t talk English, they’ll never play with me.” As well as speaking English, she wanted to dance: “I saw a lot of pupils are like dancing. I was like saying, OK, I wanna dance.” Now she practices dancing with her brother and friends while watching videos on Tiktok. “My dream is like, I want to be a dancer,” she says. “With a lot of people being a dancer with me and exciting dance time.” Full Story

“My dream… [was to] get happy and excited and more meet peoples,” says Dlbar

Omar (10), a refugee from Syria who now lives in Edinburgh with her parents and siblings. Dlbar says she is “happy in Scotland” but misses her friends. In Syria, “I was like really scared and sad,” she says. Dlbar explains that the family could not leave their home after 6pm: “If you go outside you will go in a jail. It’s real bad.” On arriving in Scotland, she recalls: “it was really exciting you can go whatever time is it.” While happy to be going to school, not speaking English made making friends difficult: “If I can’t talk English, they’ll never play with me.” As well as speaking English, she wanted to dance: “I saw a lot of pupils are like dancing. I was like saying, OK, I wanna dance.” Now she practices dancing with her brother and friends while watching videos on Tiktok. “My dream is like, I want to be a dancer,” she says. “With a lot of people being a dancer with me and exciting dance time.” Full Story

“My dream… [was to] get happy and excited and more meet peoples,” says Dlbar

Omar (10), a refugee from Syria who now lives in Edinburgh with her parents and siblings. Dlbar says she is “happy in Scotland” but misses her friends. In Syria, “I was like really scared and sad,” she says. Dlbar explains that the family could not leave their home after 6pm: “If you go outside you will go in a jail. It’s real bad.” On arriving in Scotland, she recalls: “it was really exciting you can go whatever time is it.” While happy to be going to school, not speaking English made making friends difficult: “If I can’t talk English, they’ll never play with me.” As well as speaking English, she wanted to dance: “I saw a lot of pupils are like dancing. I was like saying, OK, I wanna dance.” Now she practices dancing with her brother and friends while watching videos on Tiktok. “My dream is like, I want to be a dancer,” she says. “With a lot of people being a dancer with me and exciting dance time.” Full Story