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Saida Aden Said: I still have[br]this horrific image in my mind.

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I could see people falling down,

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gunshots.

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I was so terrified.

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Really, I was crying a lot.

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Someone who knew my father and my mom[br]grabbed my hand, and he said,

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"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!"

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And I was like, "Where's my mom?[br]My mom? My mom?"

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Noria Dambrine Dusabireme:[br]During nights we would hear shots,

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we would hear guns.

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Elections were supposed to happen.

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We had young people going in the street,

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they were having strikes.

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And most of the young people died.

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SAS: We boarded a vehicle.

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It was overloaded.

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People were running for their lives.

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That is how I fled from Somalia.

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My mom missed me.

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Nobody told her where I went.

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NDD: The fact that[br]we did not go to school,

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we couldn't go to the market,[br]we were just stuck home

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made me realize that if I got an option[br]to go for something better,

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I could just go for it[br]and have a better future.

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Ignazio Matteini: Globally,[br]displaced people in the world

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have been increasing.

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Now there are almost 60 million[br]people displaced in the world.

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And unfortunately, it doesn't stop.

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Chrystina Russell: I think[br]the humanitarian community

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is starting to realize[br]from research and reality

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that we're talking about[br]a much more permanent problem.

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Baylie Damtie Yeshita: These students,[br]they need a tertiary education,

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a degree that they can use.

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If the students are living now in Rwanda,

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if they get relocated,[br]still they can continue their study.

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Still, their degree is useful,[br]wherever they are.

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CR: Our audacious project[br]was to really test

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Southern New Hampshire University's[br]Global Education Movement's

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ability to scale,

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to bring bachelor's degrees[br]and pathways to employment

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to refugees and those who would otherwise[br]not have access to higher education.

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SAS: It was almost impossible,[br]as a refugee person,

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to further my education[br]and to make my career.

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My name is Saida Aden Said,

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and I am from Somalia.

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I was nine years old[br]when I came to Kakuma,

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and I started going to school at 17.

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Now I am doing my bachelor degree

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with SNHU.

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NDD: My name is Noria Dambrine Dusabireme.

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I'm doing my bachelor of arts[br]in communications

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with a concentration in business.

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CR: We are serving students[br]across five different countries:

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Lebanon, Kenya, Malawi,[br]Rwanda and South Africa.

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Really proud to have 800 AA grads[br]to over 400 bachelor's graduates

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and nearly 1,000 students[br]enrolled right now.

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So, the magic of this is that we're[br]addressing refugee lives as they exist.

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There are no classes.

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There are no lectures.

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There are no due dates.

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There are no final exams.

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This degree is competency-based[br]and not time-bound.

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You choose when you start your project.

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You choose how[br]you're going to approach it.

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NDD: When you open the platform,[br]that's where you can see the goals.

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Under each goal, we can find projects.

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When you open a project,[br]you get the competencies

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that you have to master,

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directions

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and overview of the project.

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CR: The secret sauce of SNHU

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is combining that[br]competency-based online learning

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with the in-person learning[br]that we do with partners

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to provide all the wraparound supports.

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That includes academic coaching.

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It means psychosocial support,

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medical support,

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and it's also the back-end[br]employment support

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that's really resulting[br]in the 95 percent graduation,

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the 88 percent employment.

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NDD: I'm a social media management intern.

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It's related to the communications[br]degree I'm doing.

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I've learned so many things[br]out of the project and in the real world.

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CR: The structured internship[br]is really an opportunity

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for students to practice their skills,

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for us to create connections[br]between that internship

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and a later job opportunity.

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(Music)

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This is a model that really[br]stops putting time

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and university policies[br]and procedures at the center

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and instead puts the student[br]at the center.

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IM: The SNHU model[br]is a big way to shake the tree.

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Huge.

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It's a huge shake to the traditional way[br]of having tertiary education here.

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BDY: It can transform[br]the lives of students

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from these vulnerable[br]and refugee communities.

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NDD: If I get the degree,

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I can just come back and work[br]everywhere that I want.

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I can go for a masters[br]confidently in English,

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which is something that[br]I would not have dreamt of before.

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And I have the confidence[br]and the skills required

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to actually go out[br]and just tackle the workplace

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without having to fear[br]that I can't make it.

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SAS: I always wanted[br]to work with the community.

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I want to establish a nonprofit.

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We advocate for women's education.

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I want to be someone[br]who is, like, an ambassador

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and encourage them to learn

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and tell them it is never too late.

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It's a dream.