“I thought, ‘If you girls had nothing to do in life and you just want to talk about men, then I’m so sorry.' But then, to some extent they were able to be the first advocates for topics like womens’ rights and rape victims.”
Omer, now 29, is the oldest of nine siblings and hails from a poor family in Khartoum. She came to the U.S. so she could work to send money home while attending college. “Everything is expensive and there were no jobs,” Omer said of her childhood in Khartoum. Now she lives in Nebraska with her two-month-old baby, while her husband, whom she is trying to help get U.S. citizenship, lives in Sudan.
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