SLJ - Week One Day Five - Activity 2: Swimming to Safety

So this story is about two sisters who ran away from the Syrian war to find safety in Europe. The sister's name where Yusra Mardini and Sarah Mardini. In the summer of 2015, they had traveled through Lebanon to Turkey before departing for Greece in an overcrowded dingy. 15 minutes into the sea the dingy had broken down due to the engine failing. As a professional swimmer, Yusra didn’t want to let her fellow passengers drowned, so the sisters and two others jumped into the ocean and swam from three and a half hours in the water to stop there dingy from capsizing, saving 20 people. A year later Yusar had been recognized by the International Olympic Committee for her determination and strong swimming skills and became apart of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team and Yusra then competed in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. From that day forward she has met a lot of leaders around the world and is aiming to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.