Austin
The Austin community works to support Asraa', who was severely injured in a US missile attack perpetrated on the morning of January 25, 1999. A large piece of shrapnel severed her right arm below the shoulder and she suffered chest and abdominal wounds. A metal fragment remains lodged in her skull, a souvenir of the American Empire; doctors could not remove it for fear of killing her. Asraa' was nine years old.
Asraa traveled to Austin in 2004, and received treatment at Shriners Hospital in Houston. She is now back home, but we hope to bring her to the United States so she can study for a university degree. She wants to be a doctor.