If given the opportunity people ‘can learn English, just like myself, and they can contribute back to the community’, the 28-year-old says
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For three years, makeshift English and maths classes in an Indonesian refugee camp were the extent of Marziyah Razi’s education.
When Razi, who was born in Afghanistan and raised in Iran, arrived in Australia as a 17-year-old with a basic understanding of English, she was hungry to resume high school.