Refugee Week - Sultana

My name is sultana and I’m from Afghanistan.

I’m very happy to have 2 brother 1 sister and both my parents, I lived a  peaceful life back in my home country, I had a beautiful house, and my dad had a TV shop, we lived a good life.

This was until my brother, dad and sisters life became in danger, and  we had to evacuate Afghanistan because of the fear of the Taliban. With lots of pain, hopelessness, we left Afghanistan. With lots of stress, effort and pain we arrived to Iran, and then progressed to turkey, where we spent 6 nights on a boat stranded on sea until we reached Italy, every night of this journey we feared death, until we arrived. From Italy we travelled to France. From France we took a boat to the United Kingdom, and when we arrived, when we saw the kindness of the government and the people of the UK, we felt as if all the pain and stress we had finally came to an end. 

Afterwards, with support of RAMFEL,  they helped us to get a home to live in and helped us a lot, we really required this support from them. As of now we live a very good, happy life. My dads only wish was that me, my brother and my sister could live in a peaceful country and complete our studies, and to have high standards and hopes for our future. Now we have a very good life in the UK, I go to school for 4 days a week, and I’m very busy with my studies. It’s a big favour on us that the UK government  and RAMFEL has helped us.

My future hope is that I become a paramedic to serve patients here in the UK. And finally, I would like to thank you RAMFEL and its colleagues for having a huge positive impact to changing our life for the better and helping us so much, and spreading their kindness to us.