A Syrian brave girl

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Syria is a country where everyone is living under the threat of     terrorism and civil wars. Hundreds of thousands of people were
killed mercilessly. Every citizen wants to escape from this 
country and reach a safe country. To save their lives,thousands
of people went to France, Germany and other countries by
small boats. And they are still going. The capacity of a small
boat is 6 or 7 people. But every boat is filled up with 25 people.
These kind of deadly travellings in the sea is very common for
these people. While crossing the sea, many boats sank and
thousands of people died.

Yusra Mardini is a beautiful girl of 17 years and a good swimmer.
An year ago her house was destroyed in the syrian civil war.
Yusra and her sister decided to escape to another country.
They paid some money to a smuggling transporter and they got
some space in a boat.

Though the boat was meant to 6 people, it was filled up with 25
people, as usual. The boat was travelling in the Mediterranean
sea. unexpectedly the boat's motor stopped working. The boat
stopped in the middle of the sea and shaking from one side to
another side. All the people started crying.

Immediately Yusra jumped into the sea and started pushing the
boat from the back. She pushed the boat of 25 people from
Damascus to Beirut, to Istanbul and finally to Lesbos. With an
extraordinary courage, Yusra pushed the boat continuously for
many hours and took the boat safely to Lesbos in Turkey.

Now living and training in Germany, Yusra Mardini got a chance
to participate in swimming competition in Rio Olympics. She is
practising swimming day and night.