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How a Senegal fishing family found safe harbour at home
Saturday, 2025/01/11 | 10:23:42
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IFAD 18 December 2024
Behind the newspaper headlines and the data on migration flows are countless ordinary people who envision a bright future for their families. Wherever their journeys take them, each of their stories is unique.
Ousmane and Adama are a couple from rural Senegal who dared to dream of a better future abroad – and, with IFAD’s support, ended up finding it at home. Ousmane’s storyOusmane, a fisherman from Kafountine in Senegal, boarded a small boat along with 80 others in 2023. In about six days the boat was expected to arrive on the coast of Europe, where he hoped to find work that would support his family and his pregnant wife Adama back home.
“I knew a lot of young people who had emigrated, and I saw what they did for their mothers and fathers,” says Ousmane. “They built beautiful houses for their parents. We've been working here in Kafountine for several years now, and we still sleep in houses made from clay and sand.”
But five days into the journey, with 200 km to go, the boat ran out of fuel. As the wind blew them further out to sea and they finished all their food and water, Ousmane had the idea of putting together a makeshift sail with any cloth they could find on board. It was their only hope.
After two weeks, people started to die. One by one, 34 bodies were sent overboard.
“You know that seawater is very salty. It’s 200 times saltier than freshwater,” says Ousmane. “That's what killed most people. That’s how it happened. I'll leave it at that.”
After 22 days, the boat drifted towards the coast of Morocco. Ousmane staggered ashore, his dreams of Europe forgotten, relieved simply to be alive.
After receiving food and medical treatment, Ousmane and the other survivors made their way south through Mauritania and finally home to Senegal.
See more https://www.ifad.org/en/w/rural-voices/how-a-senegal-fishing-family-found-safe-harbour-at-home |
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