I always try to take the path closest to life
Many stories continued about Yazidi women captives under terrorist organization “ISIS”. It recounts the tragedy of dealing with them as “Sabaya ” by ISIS . The stories do not end with their emancipation. Some of them live the traps of the past and some of them make a new life.
Salwa is one of the survivors of ISIS, she threw her past behind her back and took her path towards charity work for all who needed her, and she pledged herself to help everyone who passed through the conditions of war, kidnapping and families. He who looks at pictures of Salwa with children feels hope radiating from her eyes with a thin smile adorning her pictures. Perhaps no one can think that behind this smile are challenges and a struggle to reach the best.
Salwa, a twenty-year-old girl, now lives in Germany after she came to psychotherapy through the Baden-Württemberg State Program in cooperation with the German Air Bridge Organization, which is chaired by the German doctor of Yazidi origin, Mirza Dinnayi,. The organization works to help victims of the war in Iraq for medical treatment in Germany. Hence, Salwa began to struggle and learn to reach the woman’s Yezidi voice.
Another life with new challenges
When she came to Germany, Salwa made sure to learn the German language and work, in addition to participating in conferences in several European countries to talk about the conditions of kidnappings, such as the International Conference on the Rights of Religions in Rome. Salwa recalls that she does not like to be associated with a specific job, so she contributes and helps with her efforts and her own money whenever she has the opportunity.
She also visited Iraq with the “Jisruna” organization (Haywar organization) to provide donations to orphaned children living in camps in northern Iraq. The organization works as a bridge to deliver donations and aid from Europe to Iraq and focuses on supporting refugees in Iraq who have suffered from ISIS terrorism. “I was very surprised to see the children but it was a beautiful experience that taught me strength and the face of life,” Salwa says. And remember, it was her experience that drove her not to give in and give in to reality.
“I always try to take the path closest to life.”
“My goal is to show the strong and positive side of the Yezidi woman, and this is what I am trying so hard to communicate.” Salwa adds: “We Yazidis do not care about ourselves or our appearance when we are going through difficult circumstances. I always try to take the path closer to life. ”
Among her ambitions and goals is to build her own project with the help of other organizations, specializing in orphaned children. “What I am lacking is financial support only, alone I cannot,” Salwa says.
Community view of Yazidi women
Living as a survivor is not easy, even after the psychological treatment that surviving Yezidis received in Iraq and Germany. Criticism and outlooks from society is another challenge they face, “I was subjected to many harassment … electronically and also on the ground,” Salwa recalls and adds: “But I see the matter naturally, everyone is facing criticism.” Among the inconveniences to which they are also subjected to is the looks of compassion from some people. But she receives a lot of sympathy and encouragement from German society. Indeed, many Yezidis consider Salwa as a role model for them and they welcome her courage and charity. Especially that Salwa does not only work to communicate the voice of the Yezidi woman to the world, but also to change the reality of the Yezidi woman, who is controlled by the environment she was raised and raised with, as she says.
Memories and pictures chasing her
In our question to Salwa about her feeling after she visited Iraq for the first time after its liberation, she says: “My visit was the beginning of many things and at the same time the end of other things, I had a feeling of fear when I went to Sinjar and the house that I grew up with” .. Salwa describes her feeling of belonging, that he has been lost The Yazidis were lost, among the killed, kidnapped, and immigrant.
“I see power in every Yezidi woman in general, and in every survivor in particular,” added Salwa. Despite all these painful memories, Salwa tries to help the kidnappers and change the society’s view of them as women survivors.
Marion McGregor / S. / Info Migrant
