OUMAR'S STORY

Oumar (not his real name) sells his handbags, baseball caps and sunglasses. On the promenade between Santa Margarita and Roses. In Senegal, "there are no jobs, no work at all there". They didn't want to pay a fixer to get to Europe because they cost 2000 pounds.
Oumar and his brother hid on a ship going to the Canaries for four days. It was dark, noisy and very, very cold.
And at the end of the trip, they had to jump ship and swim the last part.
The two brothers made it to Roses, where they had some friends who helped them. They spend the summer here, and then the winsters down in the south, usually in Malaga.
The have a family back home in Senegal and they try to send money, but it's not easy.