{"id":2038,"date":"2019-02-22T04:48:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2019-03-25T01:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T22:52:57","slug":"2038-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/2038-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From Aleppo to Dearborn: The Story of a Syrian Refugee\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhRuK3Ci3-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">YAN<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Life was peaceful and simple in Aleppo for Fadia and her family. Her father sold sweets on a cart. Her mother helped with the preparations. She and her three siblings went to school. They may not have had much, but they were happy.<br \/>\nThen the war broke out in 2011. The children could no longer go to school. The neighborhoods were not safe to sell desserts. And Aleppo, one of the oldest settlements in human history, was about to become an inferno of violent confrontations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going to Jordan<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2040\" src=\"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/11-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/11-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/11.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>Fadia\u2019s father saw the incoming doom and moved the family to Jordan. There, the cost of living was high, and getting through the day was not as seamless as it was in Syria despite the welcoming and hospitable nature of the Jordanian people.<br \/>\nStill, the family pushed on, working day and night to prepare the sweets and sell them, while the children enrolled in schools. But the misfortune that they escaped in Syria followed them to Jordan.<br \/>\nOne day in 2013, Fadia\u2019s father left for his long shift on the dessert cart, but he never came back. He was hit by a car and killed. He was the main breadwinner for the displaced family.<br \/>\nThereafter, the mother started cleaning homes to support the family. Despite the stigma of being a domestic worker, she would always say: \u201cThere is no shame in work.\u201d<br \/>\nFadia told the Yemeni American News: \u201cI consider my mother my first role model.\u201d<br \/>\nAmid all the hardships, an opportunity to come to the US presented itself to Fadia and her family through the United Nations\u2019 refugee agency UNHCR.<br \/>\n<strong>They arrived to New York in 2016.<\/strong><br \/>\nFadia\u2019s struggles and eagerness to live and pursue education embody the American refugee story.<br \/>\nAfter all a poem on the Statue of Liberty says: \u201cGive me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Future will be bright\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\nRefugees are people like Fadia and her family, forced to leave their home by circumstances outside the realm of their control. They turn to America because of its reputation as a home to those seeking a better life. They mean no harm, regardless of their faith or national origin. And they certainly should not be banned or stigmatized.<br \/>\nThe Syrian war has produced millions of refugees, but only 62 displaced Syrians were allowed into the US in the last fiscal year.<br \/>\nFadia says life in the United States was not easy at first, but with the support and generosity of some well-meaning people, she was able to get acclimated to her new surroundings.<br \/>\nShe and her family moved to Dearborn where she now works full-time at a restaurant while attending Henry Ford College three days a week.<br \/>\nShe wants to eventually work in the medical field.<br \/>\nFadia is always positive and smiling at work in the restaurant. Her manager Mohammed Abu Sinan praised her hard-work, resilience and positive attitude.<br \/>\n\u201cShe has succeeded at her work quickly and managed to learn English fast,\u201d Abu Sinan told YAN. \u201cI know the future will be bright for her and her family.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YAN Life was peaceful and simple in Aleppo for Fadia and her family. Her father sold sweets on a cart. Her mother helped with the preparations. She and her three siblings went to school. They may not have had much, but they were happy. Then the war broke out in 2011. 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