00:00My name is Nermin.
00:04My name is Helaluddin.
00:05My name is Shirin Romi.
00:07I'm a refugee from Iraq.
00:09I'm from Afghanistan.
00:11I forced to flee from Kobani because ISIS came.
00:15We just sleep on the floor.
00:17The floor was very cold.
00:22Treehouse Theatre is a trauma recovery program designed to heal refugees.
00:30Daesh really hates us Kurdish people.
00:33You should go back to your country and fight the Taliban.
00:36The students initially tell their stories in a very supportive storytelling circle.
00:41And those stories we translate into scripts.
00:44Shhh.
00:45Keep quiet.
00:47I saw people, like young, very, very young children around me.
00:53They are dying and they are without their family.
00:58I'm so happy now to be in Australia.
01:03I'm happy to share my story to you because I want people to understand the Kurdish people.
01:09That was great game, guys.
01:11Time for me to go home.
01:12We've seen the growth.
01:13We've seen the change in these young people.
01:15It's just magnificent.
01:17Any way you look at it, there's an incredible healing process that's happening.
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