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| 27 Jun 2023 | |
| France | |
| Global Student Prize |
| Global Teacher Community |
The Marianne Association 2023, has named the 2023 winners including Farhad Shamo Roto, Global Student Prize finalist from 2021.
Farhad’s story began in 1994, when he was born into the Ezidi indigenous ethnic community in Shingal, northern Iraq. Despite growing up in poverty, doing his homework around an oil lamp every night, and working alongside his studies, Farhad graduated high school in 2013 with excellent grades. In 2014 his region was invaded by the so-called Islamic State, surviving Farhad then lived in a refugee camp before being granted refugee status and settling in France. With the help of a dynamic team of volunteer students that he met in Paris, Farhad was able to register his own humanitarian organization in June 2019, and today he is the founder and president of Voice Of Ezidis. As one of the winners of the Marianne Association 2023, Farhad along with the other winners met with President Macron.
