I'd like to thank all the witnesses for being here and for your testimony and Mr. Lake and the committee for making this study possible.
Disability is an extremely important subject, as is education, and ensuring that all people who have a disability can receive a dignified education and be full participants in society is critical.
While we were in committee, I saw the news, although I won't talk about it in this moment, but it brought to mind what's happening within a conflict right now in the Middle East.
Ms. Mustafa, I thank you for your testimony and your story as a young person who lived in a conflict zone in Syria and later on got the tools to really develop to your fullest capacity. I'd like to hear what your ordeal was like while living in conflict within Syria and what that experience meant for you as somebody who was living with violence and war. Can you talk a bit more about that, please?