Mevan Babakar

The Bicycle is the true story - and subject of a BBC documentary - of how a simple act of kindness changed a young refugee’s life. Born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents, Mevan’s family was forced to flee Saddam’s genocide of the Kurds in the early 1990s. Twenty-four years later she retraced the steps she had taken as a child refugee, her story making headlines around the world when she found and thanked the aid worker who had helped her and her family, gifting her a bicycle when she was a child. In 2023 Mevan was selected as an Obama Leader for Europe. Today she is a writer and social entrepreneur who works at Google. The Bicycle is a moving reminder of how powerful just one act of kindness can be.

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