Asian Girl Special Award 2019!!!
We are so proud of Sama Hijazi “our member”!
She is won the first-ever Asian Girl Special Award because of her optimism and courage in life.
In March 2011 at the age of eight, Hejazi was brave enough to venture onto the streets of Damascus during the Syrian Revolution and shout “we want freedom” together with other demonstrators.
That happened days after Syrian authorities arrested her mother, who had joined the street protests during that period.
Fortunately, her mother was able to regain her freedom but only after her father turned over all their savings to government security forces guarding the facility where her mother was held.
Hejazi and her family fled to Egypt in 2013 and finally settled in Turkey a year later. She later joined the Syrian Agency for Rescue and began to learn to play guitar.
Since then, she has used that skill to comfort girls, children, and people with disabilities in Syrian refugee camps.
“I did not study human rights at school, but my work with children as a trainer made me feel how important it is to get an education, to have the right to choose the type of musical instruments he or she likes, and to create music they felt,” Hejazi said.
“And that cannot be achieved without being free.”
