Arranging the departure was not easy!

my family collected some money for my travel. They had to sell a small field where we used to cultivate some vegetables and they borrowed some money from a relative. My father got in touch with someone who organized the journey.

I had to join a group of persons who were leaving the country like me. I knew that it would have been a hard journey, full of difficulties because I heard some stories of persons who left and never sent back any news to their family or other whose travel lasted years and at the end they were sent back to the village with nothing but their desire to leave again.

But I had also heard of some positive stories of friends who had left and were living in comfortable houses with water, electricity and a big television. They were able to send every month something at home