October 16, 2022

“Every day, from my village on the Iraq-Iran border, I walk for an hour to Pshdar’s Shene village to work on construction and farming; it takes me another hour to go back. I spent half of my life toiling; this face is not a face of a 30 years old man; I have seen the hardship of life. My brothers attended school, but I didn’t. However, I have four children, and I always tell them to study so they won’t end up like me. I show them my tired and wounded hands, so they focus on their future and study.”