With your swimming arts two Syrian sisters rescued several refugees from Drowning. Arrived In Germany, involved Yusra and Sarah Mardini today in the refugee policy.
While on the eve of the G20 summit in Hamburg, the protests on the streets of rages, it occurs in the Barclaycard Arena in the city district of Altona, completely silent, as a young girl with long brown hair on the stage. “My Name is Sarah Mardini, and I’m from Syria,” she says. “I am a Refugee who has benefited from the generosity of Germany.”
Cheers beats her, she waits and tells more. “This generosity, I can now help other Refugees, to get an education, for example by reasons in Greece schools.” Like many other Refugees in Greece for Sarah and her sister Yusra for the dramatic focal point was its history. But without the two young girls, 18 people would never have reached the shore of the Greek island of Lesvos.
In August 2015, the then-underage girl had fled from Syria. As gifted athletes, the two made a life as a Junior athlete in the national team of Syria and a home in which a civil war raged. From Damascus the sisters over Jordan in the Turkey fled to Izmir.
By the Mediterranean sea to Lesbos swimming
In a crowded boat, you car, like many others, the dangerous Crossing to the Greek island of Lesvos. As the boat threatens to sink, take the two athletes of the Initiative, a swim in the middle of the night for hours by the Mediterranean sea, and take turns with other passengers in the boat on a rope behind her.
Yusra at the Olympic Games in 2016
A feat that preserved at the end of 18 people lost their lives from Drowning and the sisters to the attention of the world. This attention you wish to use for your commitment. At the Hamburg event, Sarah proudly announces: “My sister Yusra was Olympian; we both survived, and we are citizens of the world.”
In fact, Yusra, the younger of the sisters was able to qualify, already in 2016, for the first Refugees-the team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The Team was not on medals, but to Triumph, to be according to their severe experiences. Mardini not competed in the disciplines of butterfly and free style, but in medal near. The performance of the athlete now lives in Germany, trained in a sports club in Berlin.
“I want to spread the message that refugees are ordinary people, is the traumatic and devastating circumstances of life”; said Yusra, as you will be appointed at the beginning of the year to the special Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Arrive, and for newcomers to engage
The two want to show that Refugees “are extraordinary things, if you get the opportunity,” said the 19-Year-old Yusra. For you the name is also, “to be a strong example of the power of resistance and determination” of the Refugees, “start a new life and to make a contribution to the receiving society”.
For her commitment to the sisters, here with her father and football star Bastian Schweinsteiger, the “Bambi”
“I think everyone, no matter where it comes from, should have the Chance to be able to live in safety and to follow his Dreams,” said Sarah in front of thousands of spectators in the hall in Hamburg. With Germany’s support, you could study now. In Berlin, you will take up the subjects of economy and politics.
“It is so important that a good education for every people of the world made possible”: Even if Sarah Mardini is in Hamburg, but not in reach of the G20 heads of state, would you and your sister get to other Refugees in the world policies.