According to A Wasted Decade: Human Rights in Syria during Bashar al-Asad’s First Ten Years in Power. It tells us what Syria was like when Yusra Mardini lived there with her family. Yusra Mardini was young and her family was living a life of Terror. Syria was in bad shape, there were a lot of Wars happening and a lot of innocent people were dying. The reason why this was happening after the president's son Bashar al-Assad Replaced his father as president people hoped that he would help the human rights situation that was going on. But he didn't do Anything good except make it worse by filling prisons, political prisoners, journalists, and human rights Activists, to keep them silent. The reason why he did this was that if people kept fighting for human rights he thought his power would decrease. He also denied his people from using the internet just like the Germans denied the Jewish people from using books so they won't have any ideas of having an uprising against him. And if you did do any of the things he did not allow you have to take huge consequences.
According to Olympic.org: Yusra Mardini. This article talks about how she was able to escape Syria. In 2015 Yusra and her sister Sarah Mardini Decided to flee Syria with about 20 other people to go to Greece. The journey was a bit rough but they were able to overcome it. but then their boats Motor started to fail they had no other choice to swim so what they were able to do was Yusra, Sarah and two other people jumped out of the boat and started to swim and guided the boat with them it was a hard task because there were people in the boat too. Not only did they have to swim and also guided the boat to short, but they were also swimming for 3 hours. Finally, they were able to reach the shores of the Greek island of Lesvos. Luckily everyone in the boat was fine and they were also.
Yusra and her Sarah Mardini
According to NBC News (How Yusra Mardini Survived a 25-Day Trek From Syria and became an Olympian). However, this article Does it really say much about her life in Germany But I was able to find small details in how she got where she is now. As you know from the second article she left Syria and went to Greece from Greece she went to Macedonia Then she traveled through Serbia, Hungary Austria and finally she was able To reach her destination which was Germany. When she arrived in Germany she settled herself in a refugee camp in Berlin where she was able to reunite with her father. And she was able to find a local swimming club to take her in. She wanted to swim again because when her father taught her to swim When she was younger she started to love it and swimming is like a safe haven for her. According to CNN (Yusra Mardini ‘ I represent more than Syria, I represent millions around the world, because of her swimming at that swimming club she was scouted by a swim coach Who was passing by and because of that coach her dream of being in the Olympics was made possible for her.
Yusra and her father Mohamed Ezzat Mardini Yusra and her coach Sven Spannenkrebs
Because of this, she was able to accomplish many sorts of things according to the UNHCR (Yusra Mardini) such as, In 2016 Mardini was selected to compete in the first-ever Refugee Olympic team. Mardini was 19 years old when she was appointed as the youngest to be a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in April 2017 She also advocates for refugees globally because her story would inspire other refugees to follow their dreams. According to the Olympic Channel (Yusra Mardini exclusive: ‘We stand up’ again, says refugee swimmer). Now Yusra Mardini Is a self-assured International athlete and one of the best-selling offers because of her story and also United Nation ambassador. Because of her hard work, she's not only inspiring children to follow their dreams she's also inspiring adults and herself to work hard for what you want. Now that 20/20 kind of canceled almost everything she's practicing even more to get through her goals which is going to Tokyo for the Olympics.
