“I want to stay alive, [to] try again for [another] life,” says Emar Mohammed. Now a 27-y

ear-old student living in Norwich, Emar left Libya after working in the army. “My country is not safe and I want [to] save myself,” he recalls. “I come to Europe but sometimes I feel like Europe is [the] same [as] my country, [it] is not safe for me.” He says he’s lost three years of his life waiting for his refugee status, that he misses his family, and that the stress makes him feel awful: “I come [to] England, I have all black hair, now I have a white hair…” But, he clarifies, “I don’t want to open my hand, to [be given] a gift. I have to work.” He says when he feels down, he never gives up and tries again from the beginning. Exercise also makes him happy, he says. “My dream [is] to work here and make money to get my life better from before,” he says. “My dream is…[to] have my family together.” Full Story