Five years ago I met Rafah at Bareeq center, an 18 year old Syrian young woman from Homs.
Rafah was trying to find a way out of her despair and a hopeless future.
Even though she just finished high school with high marks, she wanted to go to college but her family had arranged for her to be engaged with someone she no longer likes and to get married.
She told me, “Not only my marks can get me into the college I want to follow my dream of pharmacology, my fiancé already said that he is not going to wait for me to finish my studies if I did, and would leave me – exactly what I want!”
We were very happy to enroll her into Bareeq’s university scholarship program and she recently completed her 5-year program and graduated with a pharmacology degree with honors.
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