Name: Andrea
Father's name: Peshraw Ali
Date of birth: 25-12-1991
Place of birth: Sulaymaniyah
$Biography$
Born on 25-12-1991 in Sulaymaniyah.
I have been suffering from cerebral palsy since childhood. I went to school at the age of six. Unfortunately, I was not admitted due to low level of social culture, lack of understanding of disability itself, lack of consideration of my abilities. My father taught me the Kurdish alphabet at home within a month and I had no problems reading. At the age of fifteen, I went to a special school for adult education in order to obtain a degree. There were two classes a year. Within three years, I obtained my sixth grade diploma. I was not admitted to secondary school again. I had to pass the seventh grade without any teacher by studying at home. I was admitted to Dabashan School for eighth and ninth grades and graduated. Once again, I faced problems because of my disability and no school near my home accepted me as a student even though my ninth grade grades were very high. Unfortunately, in Kurdistan, the disabled are considered as third-class people and have the least rights. I was even broken and rejected in such a way that my heart bled. I decided to pass that stage externally and went to school only for the final exams. With the help of a relative teacher, I passed grades 10 and 11 in the first round. In grade 12, I studied three out of seven subjects without a teacher. I was able to get the College of Language, Kurdish Department, Sulaymaniyah University with a grade of seventy-two. This academic year I am in my fourth year and one of the top ten students in my department.[1]