‘We’re continuing to break the cycle’
Mar 24, 2021
4 minutes
Maryam Chimosa was just two years old when her family set up home in Brisbane, Queensland. She’d been born in a Kenyan refugee camp, the safe sanctuary her parents and two older siblings had arrived in after fleeing Somalia’s civil war.
“We didn’t know what to expect,” Maryam says now of those early, disorientating years in Australia. “My parents didn’t speak English. We weren’t familiar with the system in the same way that people who grow up in Australia have parents who are aware of the things that happen in schooling. It was difficult, definitely, with us not having English
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