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There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

~Alek Wek

Topics: Beings Done Human Human Beings Look Other Out People Right Say Should Something Speak Up Who Wrong

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I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Because Beings Children Cross Done Dying Feel Find Help Human Human Beings Just Like Me More Must Ocean Refugees Safety See Something Them Trying You I Feel

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My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Business Discipline Father Made Mum Serious She Sure

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From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Come Disappearing Fear Home Lived Neighbours Nine Old Our Parents Saw Scared School Would Years

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I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Coming Door Dreams Someone Still Which

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Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Bones Clothes Inside Me War

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My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Anything Could Even Experience Fashion Had Made Me Refugee Strong Survive World

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When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Blast Bomb Civil Civil War Homeland Old Sudan War Years

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I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Free Never See South Sudan Thought Would

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Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Capital Child Escape Family Leaving North Safety Southern Sudan Terrifying Trying Were

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Designer

Born: April 16th, 1977

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