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NameShadrach
Gendermale
Country of OriginGhana
Destination CountryMauritania

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s-1 There are migrants who escape war, and there are migrants who escape poverty.
s-2 I am one of those, I saw poverty and I am fighting against it.
s-3 This is how Shadrach explains why he left Ghana at the age of 27 to undertake the long journey that brought him to Mauritania.
s-4 I do not want to survive, I want to live.
s-5 That is why I left.
s-6 I am a cobbler, I just need my needles and a bit more stuff and then I can do my work wherever I want.
s-7 Shadrach first left Accra in 2001.
s-8 He did not have a specific destination; he just wanted to find a place where to work and earn money to invest back in his country.
s-9 I have to confess that I thought about reaching North Africa and then maybe Europe, but I never thought of crossing by boat; it is not worth it.
s-10 For six years, he moved around West Africa and finally settled in Mauritania in 2007.
s-11 Every time you enter a new country you don't know anybody, you have to find a place to sleep, a job, understand where things are and how they work.
s-12 It is a big challenge.
s-13 But if you have the chance to make a friend along the way, then everything becomes easier.
s-14 In 2005, Shadrach met Aziz, a Ghanaian hairdresser.
s-15 We shared the same ideas and the same wish for the future, so we decided to continue together.
s-16 At the beginning of 2007, with enough money saved, they left for Saint Louis and from there, they crossed into Mauritania.
s-17 Upon arrival Shadrach started to work as a garbage collector, but after a little while a friend offered him the possibility to work with him as a cobbler.
s-18 They worked together for six months, until Shadrach found a job as housekeeper.
s-19 I was really lucky.
s-20 In Mauritania it is hard for foreigners to find a job.
s-21 Each nationality has a special activity.
s-22 Typically, Ghanaians and Nigerians are hairdressers, Malians are housekeepers, Senegalese wash cars and so on.
s-23 So for me to find such a job was very fortunate.
s-24 I got it thanks to a friend of mine who decided to return to Ghana and asked me if I wanted to replace him.
s-25 This work has allowed me to put some money aside over the last eight years.
s-26 I have been fighting for this capital for so many years in my life, now I finally have it.
s-27 Whatever you do, its a matter of sacrifice.
s-28 Your life depends on you, on how hard you work.
s-29 If you make efforts at some point you get your reward.

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