After finding a way to escape from the hands of islamic insurgents, Boko Haram, four of the over 200 Nigerian school girls, were taken to the United States of America, where they are currently being taken care of.
Cosmopolitan magazine’s Abigail Pests, who has been spending some time with the girls since they arrived the American territory, disclosed in an interview, that the girls are finding everything in Oregon where they have been living, absolutely strange and different.
Mercy, Sarah, and Deborah in Oregon.
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After the traumatic experience of being kidnapped and the risk of escaping from the terrorists, the girls were very withdrawn and have been undergoing counseling of different sorts to reinstate them psychologically.
And according to BBC reports, although they are still hoping to see their friends some day, the girls are beginning to adjust to the new lease of life that the US presents, despite the fact that they have been unable to reach their family members as well as their relations, who have been displaced by Boko Haram.
Abigail tells the story of how the four girls; Mercy, Sarah, Deborah, and Grace have adjusted to their new lives.
“It was really hard for them because everything was a reminder for them, that they had left their families, their relatives and some of them who lost an uncle, cousins to boko haram killing. It has been difficult to reach their families and relations, you know telecommunication has been a problem in Nigeria,” she explained.
One of the girls had jumped off a moving truck to escape from the terrorists who reportedly disguised as soldiers, a situation which Abigail thinks was a very big risk to take considering the fact that she could have lost her life or limbs in the process.
She explained further that the girl have been trying to settle down in the US as everything seems entirely new to them since they had a really poor background.
According to her: “It is a wholly new world, everything is new to them. They grew up in poo rural villages, they had not been educated before. They had not used a computer before the school gave them i-pads and they told me they mapped out to take selfies, how to use the facebook, they are learning a whole lot of stuffs.”
Abigail said that the girls are still nursing the dreams of being reconciled with their friends whom she says were classmates of the escapees.
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