She’s been dubbed the “Malala” for Syrian refugees and it’s easy to see why.
After fleeing the horrors of her country’s bloody civil war, Mezon Almellehan and her family made their way to Jordan where they faced a slew of new struggles, but the 16-year-old’s resolve has remained unshaken.
The committed teen believes education is her ticket out of this fraught situation and she works to impress this ideal on the other girls in her Azraq refugee camp.
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Joint-Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, centre, stands with four of the five young women she invited to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, from left, Pakistan’s Kainat Soomro, school friend Shazia Ramazan, Syria’s Mezon Almellehan and school friend Kainat Riaz, as they speak to the media at Malala’s hotel in Oslo, Norway on Dec. 9, 2014.
While Almellehan faces a number of overwhelming obstacles, including not having electricity in school and seeing other girls pressured to get married young, she’s undeterred.
“I want to be a journalist,” she told the Malala Fund. “My future, I think it will be very nice.”
