A Path I Did Not Choose : as told to Mary Hoffman Wolf

Feel your heart tremble as you take this Somalian refugee's journey with her. Join her as she leaves the home she loves after enduring an endless stream of horrors including waking up to the dead bodies of friends and neighbors lying in the street after hearing their screams in the night, witnessing countless robberies and rapes by men who claimed they were trying to overthrow the government to create better lives for those they were now ravishing, and watching other families flee after losing everything they held dear. Watch through her eyes as she barely escapes getting murdered on the bus to the sea, scarred forever by the sight of a river of blood flowing out of a bus she could have been on. Share the pain she felt at having to sell her wedding rings, the one thing she had of value to buy a boat ticket for her and her two small children to get to Yemen. Listen to her prayers as she grasps her children to her during a storm that threatens their lives on the open sea. An experienced captain is the only thing that saves their boat from capsizing and tossing them all into the churning water.

Reading Fatma Buho's story will help you understand what it really means to be a refugee; a homeless human being with little reason to hope. Finally reaching America is, legitimately, a dream come true.