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here’s to the people who move ✈️. This World Refugee Day, I’m sharing my humble journey from refugee camp to becoming a doctor: 👉1999 - having lived my entire childhood in Aghanistan war and camps, I was forced to leave family to seek safety in UK aged 15. 👉2001 - started A-levels despite not having much formal education or command of English. 👉2003 - got admitted to study medicine at Cambridge University despite many saying I was a refugee, wasn't white and not educated enough for any university. 👉2006 - graduated from Cambridge with first for my research and finished studies at Harvard and Imperial Universities despite battling PTSD and loneliness. 👉2010 - qualified as a doctor, and have since been proudly serving people in the NHS as a doctor and 🌎 as a philanthropist. reposting this video because it seemed to be a favourite & i feel like so many people either resonate with this OR they really don’t. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt on this journey, it’s this: refugees ar...

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