Yusra Mardini is a Syrian swimmer currently living in Germany. She was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team…
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Yusra Mardini nearly drowned trying to escape the war in Syria. A year later, she was competing in the Olympics.…
The story of Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini who took the 2016 Rio Olympics by storm is to be told in…
Special Interview Yusra Mardini, UNHCR Supporter and Olympic Swimmer https://youtu.be/Kyu1wKgEvq4
Yusra Mardini’s incredible story has taken another turn, as the Syrian refugee and Olympic swimmer recently signed an endorsement deal…
They came, they saw, their stories inspired the world. Ten athletes — victims of unimaginable hardship, forced to leave their…
The United Nations Department of Public Information has launched a new animated video on the dramatic story of Yusra Mardini,…
Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini, a Syrian who fled across the Mediterranean, was today appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the…
A British film company has agreed to buy the rights to the story of a teenage refugee who fled Syria…
In August 2015, she and her younger sister Yusra took the same hazardous route to Lesvos themselves, as refugees fleeing…