Nyadol Nyuon — the girl who gave refugees a voice
Fierce Girls
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4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Nyadol Nyuon's family is from South Sudan, but she was born in a refugee camp.
Every night she prayed that her family could move to Australia. And, when she was 18, her prayers were answered.
In Australia, Nyadol wanted to be a lawyer, but her teachers didn't think she had the ability. Nyadol had some surprises in store for those doubters.
She did become a lawyer and, when the media unfairly targeted African youths in their reports, she found her voice and fought to give refugees a voice too.
Narrated by comedian, Natalie Tran.
Extra narration by Peggy Webber.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a story of the girl who gave refugees a voice. |
| 0:04.0 | This is a story of the girl |
| 0:10.0 | This is a story of the girl who gave refugees a voice. |
| 0:13.8 | Nia Dole Nune, read by comedian Natalie Tran. No! |
| 0:25.0 | It was a scream like nothing Yadol had ever heard before. |
| 0:31.0 | It was piercing, blood curdling, and it came from her mom. |
| 0:38.0 | Somebody help! The soldier who was piggybacking Yodol dropped her to the ground. |
| 0:44.7 | Their convoy of weary walkers came to a halt. Everyone turned to Nodol's wailing mom. |
| 0:55.0 | My baby, She cried. The baby was new doll's she cried. The baby was Nodol's sister, Nyanhaiel. She was only two weeks old. Their mom had been carrying Yarnheale in a bucket on her head. |
| 1:08.0 | She put a cloth across the top to protect her from the weather, but the cloth had fallen onto the baby's face. |
| 1:15.0 | She's not breathing! |
| 1:18.0 | Yadol didn't know how to help. |
| 1:20.6 | She was only four. All she could do was watch as somebody scooped up a cup of muddy water from a puddle and flicked droplets onto her baby sister's tiny cheeks. |
| 1:31.0 | Wake up! Her eyelids flooded. |
| 1:35.0 | Wake up! |
| 1:38.0 | She gasped for breath. |
| 1:40.0 | Wake up! |
| 1:42.0 | And then, she cried. Oh lucky! |
| 1:47.0 | Yadol whispered. Yadol thought a lot about luck. On one hand, she didn't feel lucky to be walking for days on end to another |
| 1:56.7 | country. On the other hand, she felt lucky to be piggybacked while hundreds of other kids had to walk on their own. |
| 2:05.8 | Nidal and everyone who surrounded her in that convoy were refugees. |
| 2:10.9 | People forced to leave their homes to escape danger. |
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