We Are Displaced

We Are Displaced

YA nonfiction
"Saying goodbye to Sabreen in the airport at Cairo was painful.
We had already lost so much. We'd left Yemen together two years
earlier because it had become too dangerous to stay. We had lived
with distant relatives in Egypt for two years while we had waited for
our visas. And there I was, getting on a plane to the United States--
without her. That was December 2014. I have not seen my sister
since. The missing I feel--of her, of Yemen, of the way things were
before the violence--is so big, sometimes I think it might swallow me
up."
Sisters Zaynab and Sabreen are only two of the displaced girls
and women you will get to meet in Malala Yousafzai's We Are
Displaced. Some of the others are:
*Muzoon who had to flee war torn Syria in 2013. Eight family members
lived in a 12' x 12' tent in a refugee camp with no running water;
*Maria who fled her home on the coast of Columbia with her mother and
siblings when she was four. Her mother gave her a teddy bear from her
father, never letting on that he had been killed and she was afraid
they would be next;
and *Ajida who had to flee Myanmar with her husband and three young
children so they wouldn't be slaughtered for being Rohingya.
At a time when so many politicians from the White House down and
white supremacist groups are demonizing refugees and immigrants We Are
Displaced is an excellent read for the middle to high school crowd. A
section on the back tells how students can help peers who have had so
much taken away from them.
On a personal note, the two days of the clean sweep yard sale were
excellent. We drew scads of bargain hunters who were thrilled with
their finds. It was especially gratifying for me to see people
filling bags with the clothes I'd spent a week sorting. Lisa bought
the crew restaurant food both days. And we did beat our old record.
At the end of the first day we'd taken in $7,727!!! We must have
passed $8.000 for the whole event.
A great big shout out to all who participated in the 2019 Clean Sweep!
jules hathaway



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