Monday, 07 Oct 2019 04:00 PM MYT
With no documents to prove who she was, Mamo feared she could be arrested and locked up indefinitely.Everything from going to school or getting a job to even enjoying a night out with friends was fraught with difficulties. “For most people a passport is a travel document, but for me it means everything,” said Mamo, who became a Brazilian national last year and now speaks at international events draped in a Brazilian flag.Mamo’s fate was sealed before she was born when her Christian father and Muslim mother fell in love in Syria. Interfaith marriages were banned so they eloped to neighbouring Lebanon where she, her sister Souad and brother Eddy were born.
Mamo was rejected by many schools before eventually being accepted by an Armenian school which took pity on the family. But in 2014 Brazil offered to take Mamo and her siblings under a new humanitarian visa programme it had launched to help Syrians fleeing war. “For me, my brother and sister that was the hope. In 10 years we would have the chance to be a person, a human being,” said Mamo.
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