Their dream was of a better life in europe. They were time to gambia has put an end to all such aspirations. Pecks. She said sorry there was no numbers in the world that it was their number that more than a group of 140. 00 would be migrants all of whose journeys have gone badly wrong being repatriated find international n. G. O. S talk about it with. 5 more 6 more say one of them little girl is indeed. A lot of old she survived. But im getting too often so it just appears. To defy them on the amount of money and. Live days im quoted to me to be a joke was that it wasnt evident at least that is that i had a cell phone i love the life and have attended close and the only guy who lives in danger i actually did see essex what it was and all of those things that i love that cannot be said. Imprisonment exploitation violence drowning at sea just a few of the hazards migrants face when trying to get to europe and even for those who make it the reality of life as an unwelcome arrival can be fall from ideal. In 2017 over 2700 gambians gave up on their dreams either because they couldnt get beyond libya or because public hostility and increasingly tough immigration laws deterred them from trying to stay in the e. U. They had no option but to come back and try to rebuild their lives. But with democracy beginning to function here again after years of war talk prosy and the economy also now showing signs of life some gambian return needs a rediscovering their faith in their homeland. And. The outskirts abound jewel capital of the gambia. Show. Going to was once i was in the most awful and karama 1st met in the libyan prison together they endured violence and privation and became Close Friends they also made each other a promise to one day one others who might be tempted to fall of the same path actually just go on in life just like it will be that we finally know a ship can destroy it because the joint is very very hard on them the problem is that we have to be ready to leave the problems to be officers who know they are not discouraging them from my exit in one way i discourage in them from working days but when and if they will let it go into someones going to wring it out and you know. Experience that as a foreigner and i live in a foreign country which means nobody in day even dead no one will identify you it was. Over from a failed migrants have signed up for the association all of them volunteers preparing to join mystify and karama on a remarkable mission crisscrossing the country that aim is to discourage anyone who might be considering the perilous journey thats known to all here as the back way how people are going to see the mystery. It depends because of lack of 5 minutes enjoying the advantage of just getting to know my profession i knew how to farm these who are suffering from dont want this on if one of her own affairs but i wasnt in this favorite. Days. So instead of our son having seeing the last one no not. Every. Buzzing you know i just dont think. What should be. Mystified grow up pat and sarah can the eldest of 6 children. His family amassed large debts to help fund his attempted migration in the hope that most of us and 90 technician could find a good job in germany. Today theyre still paying a high price for the sacrifices they made to be on them oh. It is like this visit in that season little bit of. Money. Despite his fate and the familys many problems his mother refuses to turn her back on him i dont think my access i think they have got one now what do i mean one of them would get us and they are going to leave you not them. But some denial that i did not is not something ideology little i do beginning she was still didnt mean like you have to go and look for a job because this is not bringing anything so you understand it you know some of the family you will have to i know it as you would you have to look for job yet in order to help us get to what i used to dunwoodie you decide to see it as an alaskan b. J. Yeah because you also trying to give you a job which you did just for the use and im showing you how proud you make i do best most yes. Today most of prime karama is dream is finally coming true on a ferry heading across the mouth of the river gumby to the countrys northern shore. With them off 15 volunteers from the association or former migrants like themselves after months of planning and trying to get financial backing for the trip and mood is upbeat yeah i have a yeah i have to say you know i think theres a look for this phrase a look at the world that i think the whole day or until the end of all this is saying things if it is all the way and enjoy. Life after saying ones. Nothing. Yeah. I mean is this you know the one that is tackling. Is something. I just called to. Food for 5 days that convoy will tour through areas where he is a burnett miss poverty and unemployment of those people take desperate measures. Think gambia is the smallest nation in west africa but its been one of the largest contributors to the my current flow across the mediterranean. And. We must stop the St Michael School and youre going to one of the biggest in the Northern Territory is. To raise awareness amongst students most often and his team have written a play based on their own experiences. Yeah migration is a tradition going back decades a much traveled route to the hardships. That you know growing. Up here but oh my. God well i thought it was because it is what i would join in a deadly journey my brother wonders of those of such a good husband would journey if you put it into business with you would you become a billionaire the that. My agent told me that he would help me leave within 2 weeks then ill be submissive in my little you. Know oh i just i just dont like it because most of those tickets will never try to build you sending you you know how many medicine this is how big it. Is going to dollars it or not only are you going to get on some of this gun bans gun. Brought us only thing that dont oh dear what is the incentive to do but people already got up to get out uganda we can. All who enjoyed it dont want to hear so i one flu is because. It is sort of fortunate they are so nice and regrows of want to do this on throughout the bonus would follow it. Later that afternoon the schools economics and social Sciences Teacher reinforces the Message International migration has become a very serious problem really receive many People Living in africa and somehow somehow i think a particular now one important question for all of you is there anybody who has someone who was ever involved in this illegal migration. Right here in the past i mean because the way. They have access to them would enter into a deep and believe. Why do you have to go and infosys and if they got a migration and irresponsible migration goes that we believe the distillation of we are young you dont you know so we said we have even you got to get in youve got your means we must be responsible enough this time son when i was to bend down on the ground the development of our country never the less Higher Education is very expensive in the gambia and even for those who get it well paid professional jobs are extremely scarce aspiration and rhetoric have yet to be matched by opportunity once you says he tells them they need to see something tangible in the country they need to see. The government being responsible enough to worse create employment. For you they need to see to government response well enough towards this didnt move tasha schoolers really do would be able to study law study medicine study on a series of education in depth country you know some people no matter how you says it does that once he does he does things in place that will leave. The same challenges are found throughout the country the convoys next stop is s. So a small town with a population of around 7000. 00. Him mystified and his team plan to use a different kind of presentation based around a large open at projection screen. As elsewhere in the gambia the people here get much of the news and information from social media but its also the medium which spreads most of the myths about how easy it is to get to a better life in europe. The truth is that for the vast majority of migrants those minutes will turn sour margaret from north africa. From britain for their care and for the images like these will be very familiar to view as of western media but for many here its the 1st time theyve been seen. Karama is counting on them having a profound and lasting effect on their elderly. Is the big deal from what you know the degrees going up just to. Keep your hips to those it. Looks. Like its really showing these images today there will be knowing that what the field was really telling that also is something what does a real picture. Tell you that image the figures are really. Stiff upper lip. Wanted to use it is the only. Akko another x. Migrant has also experienced trauma and abuse. Kidnapped while in libya she was forced into slavery for several months. Miraculously she managed to escape but her return to the gambia brought new problems here you dont have anything about the matter then you can buy in from the family of a nanny. Elder what i hadnt been that ending with him is the one harmony and fun i gonna stab somebody not as a book of time because i want to have a plan in. Italy i get up and out and i think a family thats you know an ability to laugh time to want to lately have been any of the people of the evening itll let me out. Once dreamt of opening a beauty salon and its only. Now shes having to rebuild her life with other young girls from the association together they have found the courage to speak out. On hagel and it and his station way into it and what a link on a loved one and what i want to connect on a staff when i asked abby and im not a book i j might not and if the you know im one of the matter they thought a fan get to make us laugh id be demeaned out of quitting because the found a violation of. The following day almost upon us convoy had to with java conduct. A small Farming Community on which migration has taken a terrible toll. The back way has cost the lives of 500 of its people. Something else something to live on the balls. And it was our hope that the one thing i will to live in this is not the way it was done that and the way it is the way of all we want just so and it was low so it says that its all cells once you know that i want to live one as long all balls as this all was was. A lot of. We will. Look at. A meeting has been organized with. The district chief and some 20 local chiefs. The hope is that theyll use that influence so that the families stop condoning their childrens departure. Was. Was was being. So i would do their utmost to find karama take to the stage to push the message. Out. There will. Be there are there are there are there are never going to put out of. There are going to. Feel like. Ive already. Been told i said i was. Wrong. In many java quinta families the eldest sons are long gone. Santa a farmer has stayed. Hes the last of 7 brothers to tend his familys land. Through the sweat of his brow he somehow manages to look off to acres of ground not and cereal crops but its a desperately hard life. Out of the. Division who can see if. There are love. In washington or should i just. Let me out on cold. Without machinery and with only a short rainy season sun as harvest rarely yields enough to support his family what a lot of the climate of the. Sunnah is from a generation of gambians who lived through the oppressive reform a president. Deposed in 2017 after 22 years of brutal dictatorship and economic mismanagement failed to develop the countrys ridge agricultural potential. Thailand that with investment could have provided jobs and plentiful food was abandoned to me a subsistence farming. In java could and habitants came to depend completely on money from the diaspora which paid for a new mosque brick housing facade and for a fortunate few truck his and farm machinery. Santa and his family are among those who rely on this revenue receiving around a 100 years a month from his brothers working in europe you know none of us do all of those inventing was this one. And thats not a lot of course but knowing it. Was a 1000000 new jobs isnt by the way you found us on in by the. Sun this fall the joy was unable to stop his of the sons from leaving. One of them was killed crossing the mediterranean. Now he would love to see an end to such departure is going to go for the men who call the number in the words but in the hundreds of men. You know more than titles will be. Im not a my im not an ardent profitable. And you see them by. The gambia is facing a dire lemma one quarter of its wealth comes from the earnings of its people working abroad developing the countrys resources is more urgent now than ever before. Back across the river to the countrys southern shore mystifying karama have a new scheme in mind. What. I believe is a perfect example of migrant reintegration. After failing to get into europe he returned 5 years ago and decided to start his interest in home. But i didnt do it in some way. By losing. His spine to tricky start he now turns a profit and pays his employees a steady wage. A small church st louis. And. They are made to. Live. The house. To his generals jobs this is just about. 200 jobs and yes it is very profitable yeah when you have it for 6 weeks if your market is fast you can see that youre going south and then at least. To put himself in budget is a Good Business is something that you wasnt it yeah even our salon that the one tool we use just applied to the farm. With no way of getting a loan and no experience most of his young volunteers have a slim chance of success adly steps in and offers them training both of us there. Back with. Us you dont need to. Move down some needs to name about. A vision while inflaming glades is very high in this country because the authorities failed or didnt know how to invest for example for 3 you flew. And how many people how many years. Into this business. And. Hopes that the new government will learn from the fame of the past and put money from the e. U. To good use. The country has been allocated around 15000000 euro specifically to create jobs and train young people. To live in a country a lot of us with nothing to hold on till it got leads to robbery. Increases in crime leads trying to steal in. All of this can happen frustration can lead to this debility of this country. Abilene story is inspirational but for most of his group to persuade other would be migrants from leaving something more concrete an optimism about the gambia future might be needed. Where at the bar at crow time and one of the countrys busiest. In the way the young people here have lost faith and the promise of change like so many before them they gaze is fixed on europe. 19 year old ibrahim says theres nothing just a 4. Month old camel whatever i mean for the dominican if a law to conduct about. One balance about what the hell and im not living i dont know my dad but if michael are fair but that is what i have and when i joined the chaplain modified dang it i knew that i wanted to give my hat to you tom what you saw done it and i wanted a card. To me. First. You know a job friends you had together your plain clothes going to School Together but not so much in delhi so i mean to tell you just as good as it is to do so people are somebody there to be look what you are also make it what are you going to make it no one can make a deal of most of it is. Mostly because what im getting for makes me quite a lot of it be you know this is there is i can take my way and go to. One proposed new route is anything but say incredibly some him. Hoping to use a canoe to cross the atlantic to the united states. In the face of such a time a nation gambians returned migrants clearly have much persuading still to do. 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