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Najlaa is a Syrian refugee in Turkey working to build a nurturing community for other mothers. This is her story.

This story is part of a Refinery29 series that explores the women behind the headlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.
Transcript
00:03I was the first woman in the village.
00:06I got married with the people and I wanted to have a freedom and an asylum.
00:10We were working on a man's show.
00:14Then it turned out why we should have had a man's show.
00:17So I was so excited to get married from my friends to get married with the man's show.
00:26In the first time we were able to get the sound of our voice.
00:30We had a
00:31body and a body of our body.
00:38We had a number of people in the same way.
00:39We had five or six or seven.
00:41We had all of our men and women in the same way.
00:44I was always able to get to this part of the house.
00:48I was able to get to the house.
00:49I had a new house with my children and the new ones.
00:54It was a very important thing to me.
00:55I was able to do this with Abou Ali
00:56because I didn't work with my relationship
00:58at the moment of the tour.
01:08It was a beautiful day.
01:16In 15-7, I left my wife from home.
01:20I took my home to my parents.
01:23I got my home and I took my home to five.
01:25I took my home to the house,
01:27and I left my home with my home.
01:28I stayed with my home to 24 hours.
01:32After I went to the peace,
01:34I went to the hospital.
01:39I lost my house a lot.
01:41I was a little scared.
01:42I didn't leave my house and I could leave it.
01:47I changed my house to a lot.
01:49I'm now in the workplace for the woman.
01:55It's a great place.
01:56There were 18 people.
01:58There were 18 people.
01:59There were 18 people.
01:59There were 18 people.
02:02At the beginning, it wasn't a problem.
02:04It was a dream.
02:05It started with a struggle
02:07because of the war crimes.
02:10After that, it was a surprise.
02:14They gave me a lot of work.
02:16They gave me a lot of work.
02:17They gave me love.
02:18They taught me.
02:19But the water is very good.
02:21I wanted to get rid of the 10 people.
02:22But you're trying to get rid of the time
02:23and you're ready to get rid of it.
02:25Let me get rid of it.
02:26At that moment, it's not a problem.
02:29But when you say one, two, three,
02:30you're ready to get rid of it.
02:32I got rid of it.
02:34I saw the first time I came to Turkey
02:37and I saw the Soviet Union
02:38and there were a lot of vehicles
02:40and there were a lot of vehicles.
02:43I got rid of it
02:44and I gave it to them
02:45and I gave it to them
02:47and I gave it to them
02:48and I bought it.
02:49But I didn't have a plan.
02:52I didn't have a plan.
02:52But we had to get rid of it here.
02:53We had to learn Turkish language.
02:56We had to learn our children
02:57and we had to learn them.
03:00We had to learn them.
03:01After two years,
03:02we came to this place.
03:08In the States,
03:09we had a lot of different games
03:11for brothers and sisters.
03:13We made a lot of people
03:16like Juliet or Juliet
03:16and we did this in front of smaller games.
03:18We used to make it like
03:19a movie,
03:19and we called them
03:20as a happy artist.
03:20about the prison.
03:32This is a legal system.
03:35It's not possible to do any reason.
03:38Because it's important to follow the deaf and deaf people,
03:41so it needs to be used to be a man's skin.
03:45Now I'll explain how to your children.
03:50Thank you, God.
03:51I'm going to put my hands in the hands of my children.
03:53I'm going to teach them and help them.
03:56I'm going to teach them.
03:57I'm going to teach them.
03:58I'm going to give them a lot to this place.
04:01I'm going to give them a lot to the children and the children.
04:04Thank you very much.
04:10When I came from Hلب, I was able to get to the hospital and get married.
04:15I was going to have a lot of sleep.
04:17Thank you very much when I came to the hospital and I was happy with the children.
04:22I felt that I wanted to give them something.
04:25We gave them these words.
04:27Hero, it's going to happen.
04:31Hero.
04:31Hero.
04:32Hero.
04:32Hero.
04:32Hero.
04:32Hero.
04:32Hero.
04:33Hero.
04:36Hero.
04:39Hero.
04:53Hero.
04:57Hero.
05:00Hero.
05:00Hero.
05:01Lo.
05:01What we're doing is to see what we're doing.

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