why? because of all the community pressure you have to go through. they re scared. and it hurts me, in a way. i have personally coached a few females out there who want to play cricket. they want to go out there and break those cultural barriers. it s really important that you do what your heart asks you to do. if you want to play sport, play sport. i think it s really important. imagine eight year old jasmin at a refugee camp, and she s looking at you right now. how would she feel? if there was an eight year old jasmin in the camp right now, they would want to become this person. i never thought i would have such a life in the uk. now that i did, i feel really, really privileged, and i m completely thankful for everything. jasmin akter talking to srosh khan there. and that is if from us on sportsday. see you next time. thanks for watching.
because of the persecution of the rohingya people in myanmar, jasmin s family were forced to flee to the nayapara refugee camp in bangladesh, where jasmin was born. what was day to day life like? we were living off rations. if we ran out, we had to starve or beg. the facilities there was pretty bad. i m a female, i did not have access to privacy because i did not have my own room, even to use a toilet. i didn t have access to education, access to basic human rights. i didn t even know there was a world outside the camp, you know? i ll be honest, i didn t know that, obviously, there s another country. in 2014, jasmin and her mum went back to the refugee camp to meet her grandmother after she had fallen ill. it was then, whilst out shopping for her, jasmin s life turned upside down. my mum and i had a car accident which left my mum paralysed. i was only 13 then. i don t have a father.
self sufficient, that is so important, but as a group, all we can do is do our best, try our hardest. the most important thing is this football club is back and it has been a while, but we are. great scenes. i was wondering who was going tojump in the interview! finally, after captaining england in the final of cricket s street child united world cup in 2019, jasmin akter was named as one of the bbc s 100 most inspiring and influential women. her story is one of true hardship and struggle since her parents fled myanmar. now, she s breaking barriers for south asian women by telling her story. srosh khan has been to bradford to meet her. a day to day life within a camp, i d say there s no word to describe it. like, when i compare my life now to then, i feel like that wasn t even a life. meetjasmin akter, a rohingya refugee using her voice to highlight the importance of allowing women from her community to play a sport. i d say sport has been something that has given me this new life, bec
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