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Name	Taffan
Gender	female
Country of Origin	Iraq
Destination Country	Sweden

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s-1	I was a toddler when I first came to Sweden.
s-2	I left my home of Kurdistan Iraq when the Iraqi forces launched the Anfal Campaign against the Kurds.
s-3	Our towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions.
s-4	I lost both my uncle and grandmother as a result of this.
s-5	As the war continued my parents decided that Kurdistan Iraq was no longer an ideal place to raise a family in peace.
s-6	My father, a Peshmerga -the Kurdish word for someone who faces death- worked and saved so we could move to Europe.
s-7	He knew smugglers and people who would illegally get us across borders.
s-8	With their help we eventually arrived in Sweden.
s-9	My childhood in Sweden included everything a child could ask for after having witnessed the conflict of war.
s-10	Our frequent family trips to Kurdistan allowed us to remain familiar with our mother tongue, our traditions, our history, and never forget our roots.
s-11	However, each time I visited Kurdistan I experienced the significant division of genders.
s-12	I found it very strange to see how dominant the men were and how big their role was in Kurdish society.
s-13	I made the decision to return to Kurdistan a few years ago to work on the issue of womens rights, despite the fact that the war with ISIS had just broken.
s-14	I knew that I had to reach out to young girls here.
s-15	I realized quickly that human rights were lacking and I could impact and influence people my age.
s-16	Despite all the obstacles, my determination was not weakened and today I proudly run my own foundation, I work at refugee camps, I lecture about womens and refugees rights and I share stories of women who have been former sex slaves to ISIS; I finance integration projects in Sweden and much more.
s-17	I have simply found my passion in life.
s-18	The kids in my class used to make fun of me for being Kurdish and previously a refugee.
s-19	I often heard things such as Go back to where you came from, wherever that is now as it is not on the map.
s-20	Or You are stateless, Kurdistan does not exist so you do not exist.
s-21	Or even There is no such thing as Kurdistan, you are an Iraqi whether you want to admit it or not.
s-22	I was eventually bullied to the point where I changed schools or classes.
s-23	This caused me to question my identity and it paved the way for me to start denying my own background.
s-24	I love and have always loved my life in Sweden.
s-25	I owe this country so much and all that I have today is due to the fact that they took me and my family in when we were fleeing a war.
s-26	Having lived in two different countries with very different cultural and traditional backgrounds, I have learnt to accept cultural diversity and how to communicate effectively with people from all over the world.
s-27	My country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
s-28	Kurdistan is home to me because its where I was born, but so is Sweden and so many other places on earth.
s-29	I have been fortunate enough to travel a lot with my work and have been to amazing parts of the world.
s-30	Each country has given me things in terms of knowledge and experiences, that have molded me to the person I am today.
s-31	Home to me is a certain feeling.
s-32	To me it means safety, it means knowing that wherever I am in the world, whatever money, food, or possessions I have to my name, I have a place to return to.
s-33	Home, to me, means Im never really lost.
s-34	Taffan is a Social Entrepreneur and Lecturer, and a One Young World Ambassador.

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