You're talking about the first trip we did, when the attacks on the Yazidi were starting. We were there at the very beginning. One of our main concerns was that we didn't know how the Kurdish region would deal with the refugees. In the beginning, our first choice always is not to have anybody emigrate, but to leave them at home in their culture and their environment. That is always my first choice. If you ask me if I prefer to be here or in Egypt, of course, it's my home country. This is not something that we'll disagree on. But as the years went by, and as we kept monitoring what was happening to the Yazidis on the ground, we discovered an amount of corruption, an amount of discrimination, that led us to believe that their lives there, even in Kurdistan, would not be easy, safe, or secure. The stigma facing those girls when they returned back.... We were hoping that they would be treated as victims, that they would receive the proper health care, mental health care. Sadly this didn't happen on the ground. So in the beginning we were definitely hoping that we could work with the Kurdish community on the ground in order to improve their lives and their situation after their rescue. When this didn't happen, and we kept monitoring the situation year after year, we found that having them emigrate would have to be part of the solution. So this is number one.
