"When I received the letter telling me I might be sent back to Italy, I was overcome by a deep sense of hopelessness, fear and uncertainty," said Nazira Khairzad. "I was very sad and shocked. Since then, my mum has lived in constant fear and stress. She hardly sleeps at night because she is afraid the police will suddenly come and take her daughter away."

After the Taliban seized power again in 2021, the Khairzad family fled Afghanistan separately. Nazira, now 21 , initially ended up in Italy. Her sister Nazima, two years older, eventually made it to Germany with the rest of the family via Pakistan. Nazira was only reunited with her family at the beginning of 2024, in the Frankfurt area.

"It was a difficult time. We weren't able to see each other for a long while," recalled Nazira. "But now we're happy to be reunited."

Nazima and Nazira Khairzad have been inseparable since they were children in Afghanistan.

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