[Mastercard Foundation] When Apat was a child and just beginning to study at a school outside the refugee camp where she was born and raised, a woman raised her voice one day to tell her to leave, to go back to her country, that she didn't belong there. Apat, afraid and in pain, shook and cried in silence, not telling anyone what happened. "What did I do to deserve this?" she asked herself many times. Her classmates followed the woman's lead, confirming a status she didn't choose but which nevertheless defined her:
