Iraqi Woman Studies At Alverno College
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Fatima Al-Sammarraie appeared on Live at Daybreak - Saturday for an interview with Tom Murray. Video by tmj4.com
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MILWAUKEE – Fatima Al-Sammarraie and her family fled to Syria to escape the violence that surrounded them in Iraq. She remembers militants coming into her school, kidnapping a teacher, and forcing the teacher into the trunk of their car. She also witnessed a classmate’s father being shot and killed just outside her school.
While in Syria, Fatima was accepted into the Iraqi Student Project.
She came to the U.S. in 2009 - specifically, Milwaukee’s Alverno College. Her family currently lives in Vancouver.
She’s majoring in biology, and plans to graduate in 2013. Her dream is to become a dentist, and to return to Iraq to help people in her homeland.
The Iraqi Student Project is a grass-roots effort to help Iraqi students, displaced by the war, get the education they need to help rebuild their country. Students are granted tuition waivers for their undergraduate studies.
Alverno is one of only 3 colleges in Wisconsin taking part in the Iraqi Student Project, and one of only 33 in the country.
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