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RAQQA, Syria — Sediya Imad, 37, has been her family's breadwinner for 23 years.
She married a blind man when she was 14, and gave birth to three blind children.
They've lived together in Raqqa since 2017, after fleeing war between the Syrian regime and the Islamic State (ISIS) in al-Bukamal, a town on the border with Iraq.
Sediya is the only person in her family able to work and take care of her family.
She makes ends meet by waking up at 6 am to bake bread and sell it to her neighbours.
Sediya bakes bread from 50 kilograms of flour every day. She sells 7 pieces of bread for 500 Syrian pounds ($0.20).
Her children are aged between 11 and 17. Despite the odds, they are excelling at school.
"I want to study and get my certificate in politics. I want to be one of the top ten students in the ninth grade and at undergraduate studies. I want to make all of my dreams come true, to reconstruct our country and to be famous like many other blind people," Sediya's son Mustafa said.
Two of the children's uncles are also genetically blind.
Translation and video editing by Sarkawt Mohammed
She married a blind man when she was 14, and gave birth to three blind children.
They've lived together in Raqqa since 2017, after fleeing war between the Syrian regime and the Islamic State (ISIS) in al-Bukamal, a town on the border with Iraq.
Sediya is the only person in her family able to work and take care of her family.
She makes ends meet by waking up at 6 am to bake bread and sell it to her neighbours.
Sediya bakes bread from 50 kilograms of flour every day. She sells 7 pieces of bread for 500 Syrian pounds ($0.20).
Her children are aged between 11 and 17. Despite the odds, they are excelling at school.
"I want to study and get my certificate in politics. I want to be one of the top ten students in the ninth grade and at undergraduate studies. I want to make all of my dreams come true, to reconstruct our country and to be famous like many other blind people," Sediya's son Mustafa said.
Two of the children's uncles are also genetically blind.
Translation and video editing by Sarkawt Mohammed
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