Bushkin.

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This is Solvable.

I'm Jacob Weisper.

I remember trying to compare everything I was experiencing to American movies I had seen.

Like, okay, where is Bruce Ullis? I can't find him? Where are all these people?

You know, Sufals, South Dakota is very different from Syria.

Ahmed Bader became a refugee as a young kid.

Like him, around the world, 7.1 million school-age children are refugees.

Although Bader witnessed serious destruction and devastation, he doesn't define himself by his

displacement alone. Well, first, I think you have to realize that you have a story to tell,

and then you have to realize how you can tell that story.

As Bader entered high school, he started to explore his identity more and more.

I started to kind of grapple with what it meant to be an Iraqi, American, Muslim refugee.

It was just a beginning. Yes, he realized he was a refugee, and yes, he was displaced, but he was also a refugee. It was just a beginning. Yes, he realized he was a refugee, and yes, he was

displaced, but he was also a poet and later a college graduate. He began to carve out a space

where all the parts of his identity could coexist. As a young person, publishing is this thing

that's so exclusive and this thing that's only the few of us get access to you.

And I thought, okay, well, design the website and then started by just me begging my classmates to submit.

Bader's website expanded, and then it evolved into a platform called Neradio.

Today, Neratio publishes work from 18 different countries and boasts partnerships with the UN and the Met.

That created spaces for displaced young people to feel that they can transcend the tragedy that may have initially caused their displacement.

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