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I am a somali and refugee now living here in kenya. I am 20 years old. I finished high school last year and now I am just staying at home basicaly doing house chore. I wanted to contineu with my education but I don’t have any money. I tried too many time to get loans but in this country, someone like me ( a refugee ) is not prevaledged to be given something like a loan. Even if there is an opportunity like job opening or any other, I wont get it becouse at the first inteveiw, I will be asked whether I have the national id card which show that you are a kenyan citizen and since I am not a citizen, I will not be even considered for that opprtunity.
Before I come to kenya, I did not knew much of anything even basic things like education or what I wanted to be when I grow up and where I come from, things like these were never something to hope for. We were living in a country under a war for 24/7 and the only hope you will ever have in such situations is hope that you will live long enough to see the next day while when the situation gets worse, you will hope to live the next minute.
Then one day I come to kenya with my family and here is where my life started to be normal. Every morning I could see the neighbouring kids putting on clothes that looked the same and living their house. So I asked my father why they do that and where they go and he told me that they go to school to get education and the clothes are the school uniform. what is education? I ask him cause I never had something like that and he told me this is where I person Is tought so that he can gain knowledge and wisdom to guide one’s life. So from that day on ward I decided to befriend with my neighbouring kids to find out how was this to them because even as a kid, I was the curiuos one and anything that was new to me and I did not know about it, I could just set out my self to find out. But the problem was I could not communicate with them cause I did not know the kiswahili language or even english for that matter. I played with them using basic sign language untill I come to know how to speak kiswahili. One day, one of them also my good friend stella gave me a story book ( It was ’sleeping beauty’ by ladybug) and I told her that I don’t know how to read english. At first she tought I was just kidding but when she realise the fact of the truth that I can’t read, then she started to teach me.
every time I opened to see that book, I could see this beautiful picture which dazzled my heart and I become more anxious to know what the picture was talking about because I knew that there was a story behind them. When I come to know how to read thanks to stella, I started to read the book and the story took me to a beautiful world that I never had about it in my ential life and even tought it was just a fairy tale store, it gave me a new percpective in life. To me it kinda presented in my life like what a sentor clause presents in a kids life even though at the time I did not knew a sentor clause.
I stayed at home for three years before I could start to go to school because my father could not avoid the school fee but the day I went there is probably the most happiest day of my life yet the most challenging year… but that is another long story.
Now I don’t have no life here at all and that is why I would like to come to america so that I can build a life of my own no matter how small or big it is, just knowing that it is mine is even enough. Beside that it has been a dream of mine to come to America . I am looking someone to responsor me or send me a permanant visa. So anyone out there who can help me or refer to anyone who can, I really, really appreciated highly. Either ways thanks for even empathising with me. God bless all.

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