At least 289 children have died or disappeared attempting the dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossing from North Africa to Europe so far this year, this equates to nearly 11 children a week, says UNICEF
Ibrahim Kondeh left his home in Sierra Leone to make money for his mother after his father died.
He was 17 when he arrived in Calabria, Italy, in 2017 after a year-long journey that took him through Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Algeria and Libya - before risking his life to cross the Mediterranean Sea in a small boat with dozens of others despite knowing the dangers. He told Sky News:"Everyone was just praying. Some were Christians, some were Muslims. When Christians called we all answered together, when Muslims called we all answered together, because we know it was only God's grace that could see us through that great mysterious sea."Ibrahim Kondeh was 17 when he arrived in Italy in 2017 after a year-long journey from Sierra Leone.
Having lost years of his education, he is now back at school and hopes to go to university and"help people out, just how I've been helped". "People don't move only because of wars in their country. It's normally not something that we really wanted to do, but in most cases it's the only option we had," he said., which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enablecookies or to allow those cookies just once.
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