Short clip: Farida Pabani-Salmon on resilience
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A short clip of Farida Pabani-Salmon looking back on her mother’s life and remembering her resilience.
I remember you know my mum was great. She was our strength. She was our savior, really, she was the best person in my life anyway. And she was strong, she had a tough, far tougher time than we did, because she wasn't from Uganda she came from India. My father was married in India, went to Uganda, and then she had to come to the UK, you know, traveled three continents, you know, in her lifetime, when she's only, you know, in their 30s, you know, and it, I don't know if I could do it or I could survive. You know, her strengths gave us all strength to get through what we had to. And you do anything to protect your children, you look after them, and she did, she took care of us. So for me, she was that pillar of strength in our lives, you know.
You can only make the best of what you have. And I made the best of what I have. I have worked since the age of 14. I'm going to be in my 60s. I've washed dishes, I've cleaned floors, I've washed toilets, I don't care what I do, as long as I can work to pay my way.
My mother made me strong, because she was the focus of our life and how, what she went through, if she can go through that I can do something which is nothing compared to what she went through. Be strong, be who you are, be respectful to everybody, be kind to everybody, whoever doesn't matter if they're pink, blue, green with yellow spots, be kind to people, and people will be kind to you. You can't help if people don't like you.
You can't, you can't be responsible for anybody's action, only your own, being responsible for your own actions and be kind. So that's what I hold on to. And that's what I do. I'm respectful to everybody try my best to be a kind person. I'm kind to my family, my friends, the most important people to me, you know, and people you share things like my mother shared with people, when we first came to the UK, in Penrhys, you share things, you share with the community that you live in. Some people will accept you some people won't. And you just keep the people closer to you who do and the others you just don't.
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