فنلندا: أفغانية تفوز بلقب سيدة عام2012 للاجئات

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

منح "مجلس اللاجئين" الفنلندي الطبيبة الأفغانية الأصل "ملالاي رحيم" (46 عامًا) لقب سيدة عام 2012 للاجئات؛ وذلك لجهودها وتميزها في مجال اللغة والخدمات الطبية منذ قدومها عام 2000 بصحبة زوجها وأبنائها الخمسة.

فقد استطاعت تعلم اللغة منذ عام 2007، وحصلت على تصريح بممارسة الطب في أمراض النساء، في سعي للاندماج والتآلف مع المجتمع الفنلندي، وأكدت في تصريح أنه يجب اعتبار الخلفية الدينية والثقافية للاجئين عند وضع برامج الاندماج.

ومن الجدير بالذكر أن اللاجئين الأفغان يشكلون أكبر مجموعة تطلب اللجوء، بناء على تقرير "الأمم المتحدة" الذي أشار إلى أن هناك 3.5 مليون أفغاني في حاجة إلى اللجوء لدول أخرى. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Afghan-born doctor is Refugee Woman of the Year

The Finnish Refugee Council has voted an Afghan-born doctor and mother of five as the Refugee Woman of the Year 2012.

Currently resident in Seinäjoki in western Finland, Rahim fled to Finland to escape the Taliban in her native homeland, worked in a refugee camp and now works as a gynecologist in Finland.

In making its choice this year, the Finnish Refugee Council focused on the spirit of enterprise. In spite of many difficulties, the 46-year old Malalai Rahim pushed forward to practice medicine in Finland. She is an outstanding example of how adult refugees can learn the Finnish language and integrate in a new country, according to the Council.

After receiving her medical training in the former Soviet Union, Rahim worked as a doctor in Afghanistan until the Taliban barred women from professional duties. Having fled from war zones in Afghanistan on many occasions, Rahim discivered that she was on a Taliban hit list and would have to flee to Iran with her family.

Once in Iran, she continued to work, and was the only doctor in a refugee camp on the border between Afghanistan and Iran. She later sought asylum status in Finland.

The six-member Afghan family arrived as part of a group of quota refugees accepted into Finland in 2000. They lived in Tampere, where the family’s fifth child was born. Rahim worked hard to learn Finnish and in 2007, she received a license to practice medicine in Finland. She currently works as a gynecologist at the Seinäjoki central hospital.

“We refugees are a very diverse group with different nationalities, cultures and beliefs. Many of us are highly trained, but Finland also has illiterate refugees. These factors and backgrounds should be considered in integration programmes,” Rahim noted.

The model refugee said she is particularly concerned about poorly educated women from developing countries. Apart from special training on the status of women, disease and childhood education, such women should be provided with basic reading and writing skills. Attention should also be paid to refugees who may be incapable of working because of war-related trauma, she added.

“As the refugee woman of the year I hope and believe that I can help people. It is natural to me and I have done this my entire life, even during war time,” she declared.

In recent years the highest number of refugees granted asylum has come from Afghanistan. Globally, Afghans also make up the largest refugee group. The United Nations Refugee Agency noted that in 2010 more than 3.5 million Afghans were in need of asylum.

The Finnish Refugee Council is an independent organisation that helps refugees, immigrants and returnees.