Lambertus Group 3: Brend, Radima, Dante.
We are three students studying accountancy-mathematics (6th and final year). Watch this short youtube-film below for our presentations.
We are three students studying accountancy-mathematics (6th and final year). Watch this short youtube-film below for our presentations.
Radima's story
2000, the millennium year , was the year that completely changed my life.
Me and my parents are from Grozny, a little country in Russia with a small population because it had already been in a war but at the end of 2000, the second war had just begun. The Russian army had attacked us again and this time they had killed thousands of people.
When I was about one year and a half, my dad heard a massive explosion when he was coming home from work. The army had bombed the central bazaar and everyone got scared. People started to hide in their basements. We , however, lived in an apartment, my grand-parents commanded us to come to their home but it was too far and too dangerous. At this moment my parents had made the most difficult decision in their life. They both decided to leave the country to search a better home for me. My family cried a lot when we were leaving; some people from my family tried to keep us, but my dad made clear to them that he wanted to leave because he didn’t feel safe. We packed and took the most important things with us: passport,money,food and clothes. And we left.
I’ve got scared every time a plane flew by, I started to cry and put my hands over my ears. Dad had worked in the army and knew someone who made us pass the border. There my parents had made a decision which country we were going and our final destination was Belgium. We took the train and after four days we arrived in Belgium. Brussels, that was the place where we were received. Everything was alright with our papers and they asked us what a ‘home’ was for us , my dad responded that it was a place where you can live in peace , a place with a lot of nature and where you can go peacefully to your work and that I got well educated. So they sent us to Westero, a little town.
We got a house in the street where my high school now is and quickly my dad got a job and my mom went to courses. My dad always had a dictionary with him so when he didn’t know a word he could search it up and communicate. I went to school and I learnt the language there. It was hard for me when I got there, I didn’t understand a word but I just looked and listened and repeated. Slowly I learnt the language and so did my parents.
I’ve got older and made new friends. Both my parents had jobs and worked every day. Later, my grandmother came to Belgium. She was heartbroken when we left and couldn’t stay there so she moved to Belgium too. We had enough money to buy a new house so we moved and left the house to my grandmother. The war ended 2 years later, everything was destroyed. Thousands of people died, my dad felt guilty that he left his family there so he went back to Grozny to help them. When he came back to Belgium, he had seen the abomination and he was heartbroken.
Just when the war ended the president was killed in a bomb attack and peace was destroyed again. It took a year to calm down the country but they succeeded.
In 2006, we all went together to Grozny. It was horrible to see the people there suffering and the damaged buildings.
When the president died, his son got president: Ramzan Kadyrov.He promised to make our country the most beautiful place on earth and started to rebuild the country.
He did an amazing job in almost 10 years, he made everything beautiful, he helps every single one who needs help and works really hard.Ramzan is very religious and that’s why a lot of people adore him more. He is a Muslim, most people in Grozny are Muslims and he built a huge Mosque but also thought about the Christians and made a Church.
He worked very hard and is still working there but the deeds that he already accomplished are wonderful and the people are very thankful.
But I don’t regret coming to this country and also my parents, we met amazing people here and I’m getting well educated, soae my brothers and sister. We live in a peaceful town and my parents can afford everything.
So I’m happy!
I think, I’m a very lucky person. The things that happened in the past were horrible.But in Belgium, they helped us. They didn’t let us down, everyone deserves help! Without human rights our world would be cruel, can you imagine, no care, no love and no equality!
And nowadays there are so many refugees, I wish them the best! I, once, was a refugee too. So let’s hope that human rights will exist thousands of years.
Pictures 1&2 : The destroyed houses
Pictures 3&4 : The rebuilt city
Pictures 5&6 : My father and mother
Pictures 3&4 : The rebuilt city
Pictures 5&6 : My father and mother
And here is our third assignment: