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Al-Hasakah - The story of 55-year-old Aisha Badran is similar to the stories of many Syrian women; they have faced obstacles and more responsibilities. She is from Ras Al-Ain city (Kurdish: Serê Kaniyê) of Syria, and she has tasted the bitterness of war and poverty. She was deprived of education, because she had to work as a farmer to help her family in earning their livelihood.

 Aisha got married while she was a child

Aisha's family married her to her cousin when she was twelve years old. Her marriage did not change anything in her life; she kept working in agriculture to provide for the needs of her children. Their living condition was bad, she had responsibilities as mother and wife and while her husband was sitting at home without having any responsibilities.

Aisha was both father and mother of her children

Difficult living conditions and poverty forced Aisha and her family to leave their home and went to Damascus to improve their economic conditions; Aisha has nine sons and five daughters.

Her suffering didn't end, because her husband left her to marry another woman, so she bears the responsibility of her children alone, to be both father and the mother at the same time.

Return to Sari Kani then displacement

Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Aisha Badran and her children were forced to return to their hometown, but due to clashes in the city on November 8, 2012, Aisha Badran fled along with her family members to Derbasia city to rent a house there. After the YPJ liberated Sari Kani city from terrorists and mercenaries on the 16th of July 2013, Aisha Badran and her children returned to the city after six months.

 Repeat the displacement

On October 9, 2019, the Turkish occupation launched a military operation to Serê Kaniyê, so Aisha Badran and her family were forcibly displaced from Serê Kaniyê to Al-Hasakah, and stayed in schools organized for the displaced people. She stayed there with her children and grandchildren and they slept together in a room and they suffered a lot in the winter, there weren’t enough blankets and even heaters.