{"id":5610,"date":"2015-06-12T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2018-07-23T05:40:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:40:30","slug":"the-inspiring-story-of-3-chibok-girls-who-escaped-boko-haram-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/the-inspiring-story-of-3-chibok-girls-who-escaped-boko-haram-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiring Story of 3 Chibok Girls Who Escaped Boko Haram Captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They look just like the average teenagers, happy and in school. But their smiles now do not reflect the harrowing and near death experience they faced over a year ago when they were kidnapped along with over a hundred girls from their school in Borno state.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy, Sarah and Dolapo are survivors from the <strong>Boko Haram<\/strong> Chibok kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>By a streak of luck, a few dozen of the kidnapped girls managed to escape. Yet, more than 200 remain missing till date.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to a nonprofit group in Virginia, USA, <strong>The Jubilee Campaign<\/strong>, and activists from Nigeria, the girls are living and schooling in Oregon, USA. Coming from a deeply poor, rural village in Borno state with no Internet access to the Canyonville Christian Academy, a cozy boarding school with students from more than a dozen countries, you can say their destinies have greatly changed.<\/p>\n<p>I read their interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/politics\/a41623\/bring-back-our-girls-chibok-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmopolitan<\/a> today and it warmed my heart. They are brave, yes, very brave, to risk losing their lives when they ran out of their captivity in the forest.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a touching excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are rough moments too. &#8220;They&#8217;re teenage girls. They miss their moms and their families,&#8221; says Roome. &#8220;They want to go home for the summer, but it&#8217;s too dangerous. They have nightmares. They are terrified that Boko Haram will burn the school down. Sometimes they want to sleep with the lights on. They say, &#8216;But it&#8217;s so black. It&#8217;s so black.&#8217; I tell them, &#8216;They are not coming for you.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been through so much, lost their loved ones, separated from their family&#8230; and now, here they are, pretty and smiling.<\/p>\n<p>So inspiring!<\/p>\n<p>Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/politics\/a41623\/bring-back-our-girls-chibok-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-1.jpg\" alt=\"chibok girls 1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-1-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-1-907x1024.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-2.jpg\" alt=\"chibok girls 2\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-2-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/chibok-girls-2-828x1024.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They look just like the average teenagers, happy and in school. 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