Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks
Displaced teenagers Farah and Tala wanted to 'turn destruction into something useful'.
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"After our entire city turned into rubble, everything around us pushed us to think about a solution."
— Tala Mousa , Activist
"participate in reconstruction themselves, instead of waiting only for outside help."
— Farah Mousa , Activist
"Even the view from our tent window became the main motivation."
— Tala Mousa , Activist
"Instead of seeing it as the end, we tried to see it as the beginning of something new."
— Tala Mousa , Activist
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Displaced teenagers Farah and Tala wanted to 'turn destruction into something useful'.
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