Completing a PhD is hard for aspiring academics, let alone those from refugee backgrounds but Abang Othow, who only had six years of formal schooling in Sudan, is determined to get it done.
The 42-year-old high school teacher in Western Sydney came to Australia about 25 years ago after her father was killed in the protracted civil war and she became separated from her mother and siblings when she was just five, surviving in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya by herself.
