Video | Bearing a mountain
Three female refugees — from Sudan, Syria and Yemen — talk about their lives in Cairo and the accomplishments they've achieved in a foreign land. Juggling work, home and exile, one describes the many burdens she bears as a "mountain on her head" that she simply can't put down.
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