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Four Years Until They Want Me Married

Anonymous HumanVerified ✓Oct 16, 2026

Kusma was thirteen when she spoke openly about the future she wanted. She wanted to become a doctor. She wanted education. She wanted the freedom to decide what her life could become. But there was another future already being discussed around her. Marriage. In her community,…

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The Football Dream the Flood Didn't Take

Anonymous HumanVerified ✓Oct 16, 2026

Content note: trauma.

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I Still Want to Become a Nurse

Anonymous HumanVerified ✓Oct 16, 2026

Content note: other.

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I Want to Stand Where My Teacher Stands

Anonymous HumanVerified ✓Oct 16, 2026

Hasina is eleven years old. She lives in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, but she has never known the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country her family came from. Her grandparents fled violence in the DRC in 1998. Years later, Hasina was born in the camp. Then she lost…