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Today in Focus is on its Christmas break, and so we are rerunning some of our favourite episodes

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We're celebrating some of the inspirational people that we've been lucky enough to have on

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And so today, we want to bring you the incredible story of one of my colleagues, Amna Modin.

Amna has been on a truly extraordinary journey from child refugee to Guardian Reporter. And we hope that you really enjoy hearing her tell me all about it.

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Book your Skipton Building Society My Money Review in branch, over the phone, or online at skippton.com.uk. Amna Modin was a 23-year-old rookie journalist when she begged to be sent on her first foreign assignment to report from the refugee camp in Calais known as the jungle.

I'm astonished that they let me go.

I didn't have much experience reporting.

Just kind of really went for it.

It was the first time I had crossed

the channel on a ferry, the first time that I had been to France, and the first major assignment

that I had been given. I remember just feeling incredibly nervous. It was October 2015,

and the media was full of images of desperate Syrians crossing the Mediterranean to try to reach Europe.

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