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'I owe them my life and my success': The inspiring story of refugee Mo, who found a new family at school in Wythenshawe
direct to your inboxHe arrived from his scarred homeland a lonely, traumatised boy.He left behind the olive groves of Idlib, his parents, and three of his brothers.Soon the Syrian city he fled would be devastated by air strikes as it became a final frontier in a civil war which in March will be a decade old.He reached England by first travelling by boat to Greece and then a flight to the UK.Since the age of five Mohammad Kak has had a dream.As a refugee he found a new 'family' at Manchester Enterprise Academy in Wythenshawe - where his teachers, and head, James Eldon, who helped to nurture it.They encouraged him to aim high and fulfil his ambition of one day being a pilot.When he arrived in 2016 Mohammad spoke barely any English - but by
