{"id":27303,"date":"2022-06-20T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=27303"},"modified":"2022-06-20T17:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:15:02","slug":"i-was-scared-for-my-life-so-i-fled-with-my-family-mother-and-brother-we-had-to-pay-2000-ethiopian-birr-44-to-cross-the-blue-nile-river-to-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/i-was-scared-for-my-life-so-i-fled-with-my-family-mother-and-brother-we-had-to-pay-2000-ethiopian-birr-44-to-cross-the-blue-nile-river-to-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was scared for my life so I fled with my family, mother and brother. We had to pay 2,000 Ethiopian birr ($44) to cross the Blue Nile river to Sudan.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201cI have two daughters, Ledia, 8-years-old, and Salam, 2-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be a store keeper for 10 years back home. I searched for a job here but with no luck. My husband works as a labourer in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWFP provides us with monthly food rations. Water is accessible and clean but we don\u2019t have medicine. My eldest daughter goes to school in grade 1. She is facing a difficulty adjusting to Sudan\u2019s education system. The children lack child friendly spaces here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cook for my family and wash my children\u2019s clothes and use the bathing facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know about Islamic Relief from Qurbani distributions. I ate good meat; I haven\u2019t eaten meat for 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore Islamic Relief constructed the bathing facility, I used to bathe my children in a basin at my tent. The dirty water accumulated on the ground which caused flies to infest the area. The bathing facility is more hygienic because it has a drainage system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barakhti\u2019s brother, Mabrahtum, is a teacher of 11 years. He is currently an English teacher at Islamic Relief\u2019s Education Cannot Wait (ECW) schools.<\/p>\n<p>Mabrahtum (which literally translates to enlightment) says, \u201cI love teaching, I like to see children have more knowledge. I raise awareness on hygiene among high school students. I don\u2019t allow children to play around latrines to protect them from falling into the latrine and from diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need a job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish for peace and to go back to my country. I also hope my children have a proper education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank Islamic Relief for constructing the bathing facility.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid element_width=&#8221;12&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1655715106452-a88f6e10-68f1-4&#8243; include=&#8221;27304&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201cI have two daughters, Ledia, 8-years-old, and Salam, 2-years-old. \u201cI used to be a store keeper for 10 years back home. I searched for a job here but with no luck. My husband works as a labourer in the camp. \u201cWFP provides us with monthly food rations. Water is accessible and clean but we don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-international","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27310,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27303\/revisions\/27310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}