Journey to Freedom: Escaping the Taliban

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00:00My school was called Sultan Razia Girls High School.

00:17From the primary school until we graduated from school, all were girls.

00:22It was extremely important for my mom and dad.

00:26I can say that they do their best for all of their children to be educated and go for

00:34their dreams.

00:35What was the moment when you first realised that Taliban were in charge?

00:41In our city, the first time it was at night, we were just doing like usual, our family

00:48were around and we were just talking.

00:51There was the sounds of bullets.

00:54The people were shouting.

00:56I could hear that.

00:58I got scared at that time.

01:00I really got scared.

01:01We were all of our family just was in one room and it was really, it was like a nightmare

01:08to be honest.

01:09How did life change?

01:13It completely changed, completely changed our lives.

01:20We were visiting our family, we were going to university.

01:24My small sister used to go to school.

01:28My father used to go to work, my mom as well.

01:32But after that, everything banned it.

01:35It was like during the coronavirus, like the current quarantine came back.

01:41We were just at home without any hope.

01:45On the night that the Taliban attacked our city, I decided to leave Afghanistan.

01:52I had to go to a second country to start my visa application because in Afghanistan, there

01:59wasn't a chance to start an application to come to the UK.

02:04Therefore I chose Iran.

02:05What was your last night in Iran like?

02:09It was really emotional, yeah.

02:14And that's the last time you've seen your family, seriously?

02:22Sorry.

02:23You did very well.

02:29Yeah, it was really emotional.

02:30My family was in Afghanistan and there was just me to leave Afghanistan.

02:37It wasn't easy.

02:42It wasn't easy because I have a family in there.

02:48I have never, ever been apart from my family.

02:52It wasn't easy for me to get out of Afghanistan and to go for my dreams.

02:58At the same time, I really felt guilty because I had a chance.

03:02I was the only one that I had a chance to get out of Afghanistan, but my family was

03:08in Afghanistan.

03:09Especially my small sister, she's still in Afghanistan and she does not have a future

03:16in her life.

03:17When I applied for the visa, I applied for the visa.

03:22About seven or eight months, I had to wait for my visa.

03:27From the day that I went or from the day when I left to Iran, if I count all, it was 10

03:32months.

03:33It was 10 months.

03:34My visa was like my future.

03:35I was waiting for that, yeah.

03:37How is life different in Moray?

03:40I'm allowed to do whatever I want to do, especially in education.

03:46So when I came to Moray, I just saw that people are very friendly, they are very kind, and

03:53they want to help you.

03:54So the teachers, the teachers all were very supportive, all that just help you to push

04:00you for your dreams.

04:02Extremely happy time when I realized that I got the student of the year.

04:06Again, I said, I called to my mom and dad, I said, I got this award, and they got really

04:11happy about this.

04:13What do you miss about your life in Afghanistan?

04:20If I say this in one word, I would say I miss my freedom.

04:25Freedom of education, freedom of go out travel, freedom of being with family.

04:33I miss this.

04:36I miss my freedom.

04:37I miss my freedom.

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