Source: Jubilee Campaign, July 31, 2016<\/p>\n
\u201cVery recently I had a trying time in my life,\u201d [explained Hanna Petros Solomon in a June 22 presentation]. \u201cNo, I didn\u2019t have to dodge bullets to cross another border, I had to write my transfer essay to university. In order to understand who you are as a person, universities ask you to describe the journey that brought you to them. I wrote what I thought was an excellent essay about why I came to America, and handed it to my professor who was helping me with the process. He told me that the essay spoke more about my country and the state of dictatorship than it did my own experiences, it had to be personal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn an effort to apply his advice, I changed every \u2018we\u2019 pronoun to \u2018I,\u2019 and suddenly the words on paper became too personal, painful even.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read Hanna Petros Solomon\u2019s story<\/a> to learn more about the situation in Eritrea and how it has affected lives, or watch this recording of her testimony<\/a>. Another version<\/a> (a bit more polished) is from 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Jubilee Campaign, July 31, 2016 \u201cVery recently I had a trying time in my life,\u201d [explained Hanna Petros Solomon in a June 22 presentation]. \u201cNo, I didn\u2019t have to dodge bullets to cross another border, I had to write my transfer essay to university. In order to understand who you are as a person, … Continue reading ERITREA: Moving Testimony of a Refugee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}