Ismael Sagna
Is 27 years old and he is both Gambian and Senegalese as he has the double nationality although he has lived for most of his life in Senegal. He started studying Law at the university but his project was interrupted because of his father’s death. Ismael is the oldest of his siblings. That is why he had to follow another profession to help his mother and his three siblings, who keep studying. His brother is in France, doing a university degree in Humanities in Lyon.
Ismael makes the scrap metal for large-sized constructions in Senegal, but the salary he perceives is not enough for all his family.
He arrived in El Hierro on a dinghy that left from Mauritania. That was the fifth attempt of reaching the Canary Islands in three years, both from Morocco and Mauritania.
Ismael says that after having crossed the sea and survived, you can only go forward. His journey goes on as he was a month in El Hierro, two months in the south of Tenerife and three months in Las Raíces, waiting for his asylum application to advance. He wants to work in Valencia in order to find his brother in France and help his family. His projects do not end there as he dreams of returning to his country to earn a living there.
Aziz Bassbassi
Is 27 years old and he is both Gambian and Senegalese as he has the double nationality although he has lived for most of his life in Senegal. He started studying Law at the university but his project was interrupted because of his father’s death. Ismael is the oldest of his siblings. That is why he had to follow another profession to help his mother and his three siblings, who keep studying. His brother is in France, doing a university degree in Humanities in Lyon.
Ismael makes the scrap metal for large-sized constructions in Senegal, but the salary he perceives is not enough for all his family.
He arrived in El Hierro on a dinghy that left from Mauritania. That was the fifth attempt of reaching the Canary Islands in three years, both from Morocco and Mauritania.
Ismael says that after having crossed the sea and survived, you can only go forward. His journey goes on as he was a month in El Hierro, two months in the south of Tenerife and three months in Las Raíces, waiting for his asylum application to advance. He wants to work in Valencia in order to find his brother in France and help his family. His projects do not end there as he dreams of returning to his country to earn a living there.
