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I always had the idea that Europe is the most beautiful country in the world, I always had the mentality that Europe is the richest country in the world. Then, when I arrive in Italy, they tell me that there are thousands of people sleeping…
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Home, home sweet home. When I was in Africa, I imagined that here, as soon as they arrived, they would put you inside a house with all the nice things: the sofa, the chair. Instead, here in Bologna, it is not like that. Here, it is very…
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Many leave to look for and find a new life. Those who are already here and would like to rejoin their families naturally say "come here, it's better here", certainly much better than there. But then, when they arrive here, they don't find…
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In the end I would say that, in general, having to take stock of all the stories that I have listened to and all of the moments that I have spent with these guys, I have overall seen a lot of happiness.That very simple happiness, very…
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So, when it comes to studying, when I arrived here I found myself in luck. In the sense that I had first become passionate about the language and I had started to do research, I was in more than one language school, meaning literacy…
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I also thought that we would find work, that we would have the possibility to continue studying. Unfortunately we did not find work, as we did not find the possibility to continue studying. If you are in a country where you don't work, it…
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So... My first thing when I got here that I wanted to do is to become a doctor, to help others, to save lives, like I was in The Gambia with my uncle. My uncle is a doctor, so everyone respected him because he is a great doctor. I also…
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Study, study, study… yes, but right at this moment, I am seeing many people that arrive with a university degree almost finished and that would like to have their exams recognized and to wrap up their path to a degree. This is practically…
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They have asked us to prepare many documents, of many different types. We presented everything that we had, we also prepared some documents that are needed in Italy. We did everything. because they asked us to prepare many documents,…
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Before 2016 people were not aiming at Italy, absolutely. So they were stuck for the so-called Dublin Regulation: identified in Italy, they tried to transit mainly to northern Europe: Germany, Sweden, Finland, Norway. It was a migration that…
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