The 16-year-outmoded Syrian,who has spent her life in a wheelchair, captured hearts when her story was featured in a BBC report
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• Alek Skarlatos: ‘I saw this guy with an AK-47, and tapped my friend on the shoulder and said: Let’s fade’When Nujeen Mustafa left her domestic in Syria 16 months ago she had three goals: to join her brother and sister in Germany,to meet the queen and to become an astronaut. She has already ticked off the first of those three goals and nobody who has followed the teenager’s story so far would bet against her achieving the other two. Because if there’s one thing Nujeen knows all approximately, it’s beating unfavourable odds.
Born with cerebral palsy, and the 16-year-outmoded has spent her life in a wheelchair. She had little formal education in Syria but taught herself English by watching US soap operas. In 2014 her domestic town of Kobane was at the centre of fierce fighting between Isis militants and US-backed Kurdish forces,forcing her family to flee across the border into Turkey.
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Source: theguardian.com