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Meron Estefanos Quotes

born 1975 Ethiopia

Meron Estefanos (born 6 January 1975) is a Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist and journalist. She first became known in the Eritrean refugee community in 2011 for helping people who had been kidnapped and tortured by human traffickers on their way to Israel in order to extort ransom money from their relatives, exemplified in the 2013 documentary film Sound of Torture.

Ethiopia
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Journalists

Random Meron Estefanos quote

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Start small. It always, you can start small, but don't get discouraged.

I was supposed to be this regular journalist, but it became like a hotline where a lot of people started calling.

I want people to know what is happening to Eritrean refugees.

One thing I promise hostages is that it will be over one day.

I wanted to give a voice to people who had no voice

If as a single mother, raising two kids by myself and running radio from my kitchen for the past 20 years and managed to save over 30,000 people, if I can do that by myself, why not you?

I thought it was worth the risk.

Everybody told me that I was crazy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Meron Estefanos (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.