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# StoryCorps Shorts: A Piece of Home
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/pov/specials/storycorps-shorts-a-piece-of-home-xaol2t/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:54:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-14T06:45:15.000Z
- Description: An Ethiopian refugee remembers the home she left behind.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: POV, #ZZZ_Show_70f7837f-7d56-44e5-aeca-8af3c2ecd00c, #v1.6, #ZZZ_Special_59ec3043-62ff-4a30-9dfb-d1031f03fe21, #special

In 1998, a violent conflict forced Najat Hamza to flee her home in Oromia, a regional state in Ethiopia. She recalls the night she said goodbye to her mother before she, her father, and two siblings left for Kenya. Najat eventually settled down in Minnesota, but she still longs for a place she left behind. She came to StoryCorps to reflect on her journey and share what home means to her.