Refugee Council’s Post

“Finally, after years of war, we feel there is freedom. It's a crazy, crazy feeling that I can't explain. Before, we were so suppressed. My friends who are Syrian, who are in Germany, and in the UK, everywhere - everyone had the same reaction – we were calling each other, we were all so happy. I felt my identity had been rebuilt.” Esther came to the UK as a refugee with her parents, when she was a teenager. She has now spent half her life in the UK. Like many people from Syria, she is happy, but also concerned about what happens next. “It is so difficult to see some of the images on TV, especially of the people being released from the prisons. All of my friends have a poster of someone they know who is missing. They still don't know if they are dead. In every family, there's been someone who's been missing, and now we're just looking for them. At the moment, it's a very uncertain time. If the situation improves, a lot of my friends, they are willing to go back. None of my people chose to be refugees. They really want to rebuild the country they know – the country where we belong. But it's very unsafe right now in Syria, very dangerous. There's no government. We’re waiting for a sign of what's going to happen in the future.” “It’s very difficult to call two places home. I’ve lived half my life in Syria, and half of it in the UK. Syria is my home, and the UK is the place that welcomed me. You love them both, I think equally.” We are standing with refugees from Syria, at this emotional time. Read more of Esther’s story on our website: https://bit.ly/41Hs55H

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