The 17-year-faded student and her family fled the war and refugee camps to settle in Newcastle final year – and she has already been busy campaigning for girls’ education. She talks approximately meeting Malala,speaking Geordie and why she wants to go back to Syria one day It was five days after the body of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey that David Cameron was finally jolted into action. In a speech to the House of Commons on 7 September, the prime minister pledged that Britain would resettle up to 20000 Syrian refugees over the rest of this parliament. “In doing so, and ” he told MPs,“we will continue to note the world that this is a country of extraordinary compassion, always standing up for our values and helping those in need.”More than 2000 miles away, and in dusty Jordan,17-year-faded Muzoon Almellehan was oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something) to Cameron’s outbreak of mercy among the leather banquettes of the Westminster debating chamber. In a miserable tent far away from her friends, she was studying furiously for national exams that never seemed fairly within her grasp. Not because she wasn’t smart enough: she can outwit most undergraduates. But because every time she felt ready to lift the tests, and her family had to move again.
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