Well from Gaza to Sydney, where some of those who have fled conflicts and oppression around the world, have found refuge. Many of them are young people who often arrive here having witnessed severely traumatic events. Now one theatre near Liverpool is taking a pioneering approach to helping them deal with it.
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00:00My name is Nermin.
00:04My name is Helaluddin.
00:05My name is Shirin Romi.
00:07I'm a refugee from Iraq.
00:09I'm from Afghanistan.
00:11I forced to flee from Kobani because ISIS came.
00:15We just sleep on the floor.
00:17The floor was very cold.
00:22Treehouse Theatre is a trauma recovery program designed to heal refugees.
00:30Daesh really hates us Kurdish people.
00:33You should go back to your country and fight the Taliban.
00:36The students initially tell their stories in a very supportive storytelling circle.
00:41And those stories we translate into scripts.
00:44Shhh.
00:45Keep quiet.
00:47I saw people, like young, very, very young children around me.
00:53They are dying and they are without their family.
00:58I'm so happy now to be in Australia.
01:03I'm happy to share my story to you because I want people to understand the Kurdish people.
01:09That was great game, guys.
01:11Time for me to go home.
01:12We've seen the growth.
01:13We've seen the change in these young people.
01:15It's just magnificent.
01:17Any way you look at it, there's an incredible healing process that's happening.