Perspectives On Yemen Refuge crisis
"I don't want to lose my life over a dream"
"I don't want to lose my life over a dream," said Nisma al-Ozebi, a 21-year-old civil engineering student in the southern port city of Aden. She longs for a scholarship that would be her passport to a sanctuary in Europe, but adds: "I don't want to leave Yemen and live like a refugee."
This quote shows that the the people of Yemen do not want to leave but are forced into leaving due to the war. This quote also shows the state Yemen and it's people are in, and how it prevents it's people from a proper education.
"You feel like death is waiting in every place," says Kholood al-Absi, 27, who lost her job with a oil service company in Sanaa late last year. "From the air it's Saudi planes. From the ground it's Houthis, car bombs, explosions, clashes. You feel the lives of Yemenis are very cheap."
Reached by telephone at her home in the capital, she says: "I have a valid passport ... I'm just ready to go."
This quote shows how desperate the people of Yemen are to get out of their country.
Kholood says she would leave everything behind in Yemen for a better life.