you're going to unofficial estimates more than 1200000 venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. already at all i've returned to venezuela. to visit friends i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know when i lived there again i don't know so i'm not sure. bearing witness global news that matters . made for mines. i think. i'm afraid of getting stuck here like most of those who have finished school yet they stay here. i know lots of people who didn't follow their dreams. when there isn't sense a crusade is nothing one of the most densely populated islands in the world it lies in the caribbean off the coast of colombia and is barely larger than

a football pitch. despite the overcrowding and poverty a few of its residents try their luck elsewhere but is determined to live and study at university. because this is my house i live here with my mother and father i'm one of 10 children and my sister and her husband also live here with us my house is painted yellow and red colors that convey lots of joy emotion and feelings of happiness. we live here even though it's not really big bang it's quite small but made with love . 500 people live on santa cruz than his last day on one hector with no running water no trash collection no doctors or police.

she started to think it's made us or islands residents are under 18. there is a school that tends but it costs money to go there which many parents can't or don't want to pay that's because most of the island's young people and up working as fishermen or in one of the hotels on the neighboring island. say 6 from 17 pupils now you know or a didn't come here one fewer kids are coming. many people here are simply stuck in a rut. they can't imagine a future anywhere else. at least we can now earn a high school diploma at our school. but the only trouble is. no one from here can afford to study on the mainland. i mean i thought i was going.

to pay his school fees gives the island's residents manicures and pedicures. he always has his cell phone handy so his clients can choose a design for their nails from the internet. knowing about it. like that. then it's well as job to get as close as possible to their chosen look. and how little he may know these things when i say that it's really bad for me to do pedicures manicures and hair. but at the time when i asked them why they say. that's good for a woman but not for a man. but i'm doing this because i need the money not because i want to be a woman. nor do i was born there it's not there that's not like the picture i showed me. what did you expect. what do you really want. to discount.

again. are you scared to. do it again i'm not scared if you are scared that you see you're scared it's not. for me little kids doing music. like a melody and that i'm. sure. to become a pediatric nurse he's often seen children on the island get ill and there's no one . to help them. but to get his nursing qualifications in colombia he'd have to go to university and that means moving to the mainland he's already written to the closest university to request an interview. if i had to choose between our island anywhere else on earth i'd stay here. the

best thing would be if there were a university here if there were i be really happy. well then i wouldn't have to do with thing is that. it's. a few weeks later who has a haircut appointment when he does not pay has granted his request for an interview he also has an appointment to learn how he can apply for a scholarship. i think for me i'm happy i've taken the 1st step. and i know that with god's help i can do it. but i'm a bit scared too after all it's the 1st interview i've had in my life but the most important thing is that i'm happy and i know i can do it you know what i do. know students in colombia come from wealthy families who wouldn't only be the 1st to get

into university he also be one of the few poor students there all the way. the night before who had plans to set off for the mainland into struck by a powerful storm. that the fall of the. house was one of the largest my bedroom is completely gone and parts of the other rooms are 2 it was awful. but undeterred he travels to betting to the north it's the 1st time he's ever visited the colombian mainland. he's taken his best friend diana along for support there sharing a small room at a guest heads. yesterday during the storm i thought i'll miss my appointment i

can't go. but now that it's worked out i really feel blessed i want to keep going. but i. first have to say what i can wear to the appointment tomorrow. this here or something else instead we have. to go we. we've been mercy is on my side. although yesterday was very difficult i have to leave that behind me. the material things you can get back but not your life i have to keep looking forward. how do you it's a city of 1200000 people that's huge compared to whoever's island which has just 500 residents he's not used to the traffic. no way i'm not going to cross over here. you know yelling that you know i want our island there was

once a woman who wanted to cross the street at a zebra crossing during a visit to the mainland. she got run over by a car there wasn't much left of her you know i'm too afraid i won't go over there on my own for all. there's just 2 hours left to his appointment at the university. to make sure he arrived safely takes a taxi even though it's quite expensive. how do you like. that here it's wonderful. to see. the school isn't it the people in the streets. and you know that in a. way i only upgrade the a scholarship don't work out but i can't get a single bad grade in school but you can always have a bad day. with about me and because it's for. the

only there's this campus alone it's bigger than the island comes from it's among the best universities in colombia. but last year fewer than $170.00 of its roughly $10000.00 students were awarded scholarships. first appointment is what the head of the nursing faculty. you want to tell me why you want to study here i mean 1st i have to tell you about where i come from. on my island there is no regular health care there is no doctor . no i mean now i understand his interest is rooted in the fact that there is a lack of healthcare on his mind and he wants to help and that's something really valuable i'm certain that if he makes it he'll be of help that he. is.

but for now she can't do much more than give her a flyer a decision can only be made after who has submitted all of the relevant documents. on what they're going to support any thanks for everything they had also brought you something from the island flake out of their own lovely is that typical of the island yes we sell lots of them. i mean with then he's off to his 2nd. went with an employee in the finance department to learn how to apply for a scholarship. we. wouldn't be able to afford his accommodation on the island let alone the 2 mission . saying the number of their own doing you can apply for the scholarship no matter what region you come from. we mainly focus on your exam results your previous report cards and you extracurricular activities. goes on and then we

decide. that. the fact that grades are so important could prove a problem for. the questions on the school leaving exams are the same nationwide and welfare's the exam preparation at his school on the island isn't very good. i would really like to stay here. but i'd like to take part in the dancing or go to the gym. sept it would just blow my mind. but what if your huge shark nice one might be overcome with joy so i have it but i'll use it. if well stays on the island his future plans would be limited he would expand his nail design business and maybe open

a waxing studio he'd much rather go to university and hope he won't be the only one from his island to do so. by the people's will also make it i mean it would be sad if just one of us did there are lots of people on the island who want to achieve more and want to look ahead. but there are many who also make poor decisions due to money problems. the cubans and i was a kid but when my mother this is beyond me. a few months later receives a letter informing him that he won't be studying at the university in baton. reason his grades weren't good enough. it's a real setback but who else not giving up hope he'll apply to other universities now. mommy. mommy and me.

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