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February 19, 2023 40 mins
When the pandemic was declared, Stuart was working on a 12 month humanitarian aid contract for Oxfam in wartorn Syria. When his contract ended, he spent the next eight months trying to exit the wartorn country, and return home to Australia. Needing to depressurise after spending 20 months in a warzone and concerned about his financial situation, he found respite in Greece before making his way to the UK. With international flight caps in place and one flight after another cancelled, he eventually secured a repat flight from the UK into Howard Springs, Northern Territory. This is Stuart's story.

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