Artist Samira Kitman dreamed of being the female Bill Gates,but after fleeing from the Taliban faces an uncertain future in the UKShe was voted Afghan businesswoman of the year, has been praised by Prince Charles and has had her art displayed at the V&A museum in London and the Smithsonian in Washington. She is the subject of a chapter in a book by a former US president’s wife celebrating women in Afghanistan and once declared her ambition to be “the female Bill Gates in my country”.
But these days Samira Kitman is living on £5 a day in a shared house in Lancaster, or north-west England,unable to work, missing her family and desperate for the domestic Office to grant her refugee status so she can start a novel life in the UK. Related: They left Afghanistan a family of nine. They arrived in the UK a family of two Related: UK sending Syrians back to countries where they were beaten and abused Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com