
“My name is Sumaya, I am 18y and I am from Yemen. In the beginning I didn’t feel luck. I felt that it would have been better if the bullet went 5 cms towards the center of my chest. This is what war looks like: Your heart exposed to chance. But our heart is not just exposed to bullets and bombs, our heart is exposed to the trauma of loosing our children, of not knowing where to run from the bombs, of living in fear, it´s a state a permanent broken heart. And that´s all we know since the war started: Pain and suffering. Not only we feel that the world forgot that we are human beings, we also know that many people are selling weapons to kill us, and making money from it. And that hurts more than the bullets in our chest. These psychological wounds are causing mainly women, a trauma that the eyes can´t see and words can not explain. But this bullet made me stronger, made me realize that I have a role in saving my country, and saving mankind. I want to be a psychologist, and help to empower the girls and women of Yemen, to be strong and confident, and to help them heal their wounds of the heart. At the begging I felt that this bullet should have gone to my heart. But now I think it went exactly to the right place. Bad enough to injure me deeply, but good enough to let me live a second chance of being stronger towards myself and all the girls in the world suffering from horrible wars. Give more knowledge and confidence to these girls and the wars will be over.”
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