SHAFAQNA- One year since the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Afghan refugees who have been resettled face myriad challenges.
Zainab, a teenager from Afghanistan who has lived in a cramped California motel room with her family for nearly a year, still has scars on her wrist from the shattered glass of a suicide bombing.
She and her sister, Zahra, are trying to quickly learn English so they can find work and help their family cover the sky-high cost of rent in San Jose.
“I have no choice but to help my family,” Zahra said through a translator inside the family’s budget motel room, filled with the aroma of cooked rice and strewn with stuffed animals and English grammar textbooks. The family spoke with Al-Jazeera on the condition that their last name would be withheld.
Zahra’s 21-year-old brother, who the Taliban beat as he tried to enter the Kabul airport, remains trapped in Afghanistan.
Source: aljazeera
READ MORE FROM SHAFAQNA:
Secret schools sprung across Afghanistan