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Letter 6: Young Learner

Dear Friends,

I am a young lady, fifteen years old. I would like to tell young people (as well as old), about the hardship and challenges I’ve faced since I was young and up to the stage I am now.

I come from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Most people know from newspapers and television how dangerous and terrible life is there. There’s a lot of war and fighting, so many people get killed and others injured.

My story is a very painful story for me to tell, but I hope that by telling many young and old people about it and how I escaped from it, I can help them understand how terrible war is. I lost my parents, not so long ago – that was early this year in the month of February. It was in the evening, about 9pm. I remember we were waiting for my Mum’s friend who was going to become a Christian. Suddenly, we heard somebody knocking on the door; my brother went and opened the door. In a flash, five men with guns came in and ordered us to lie flat on the floor; they were really aggressive with us. We tried to work out what was happening to us, but we couldn’t understand.

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