ah, listen carefully. don't know how with you miss to the girl. ah, feel the magic discover the world around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. b . ah ah, across the capital of ghana in west africa. linda is a young gunny woman who dreams of starting her own business. here. she wants to open a hair salon, but it won't be easy. some of the money she needs to get going,

who come from her family, who live in germany? linda stepfather is one of the many africans who transfer money back to their home countries each month, globally. these so called remittance payments total around $600000000000.00 every year. that's more than all development aid combined. roman. yeah. awesome. when you live abroad, like we do in germany, your family back home usually doesn't live as comfortably as you do missile boarded with google. and that's why it's really important that we support our families back home with the formula in the how much dusters. so if you have a parental support, there may be at least it helps with also me my parents, i'm relativism. i always say, i'm glad i have the luxury ah, linda lives alone in a suburb of acura. years ago,

her mother moved to germany to be with her step father. after studying at university, linda was unable to find the job. she gets by doing various things and through support from her parents in germany. she lives frugally because she's determined to achieve her dream of owning her own hair salon. market. oh yeah. every other wednesday she travels 30 kilometers to a market where she can get groceries for a reasonable price. yeah. gala that our issue here. yeah. we there, you know, software here use you read k 30 a glad we know your parents as you go and everything but no definite job. yeah. very difficult on the way to the market. she stops at an a t m. her parents make sure she has enough money for the essentials. every few weeks, she gets a bank transfer from germany. they sell it to support

a monkey, my bills, my bills are home and so forth. me with food stuff life. i get myself. i will do. i hey, you know, i'm a lady for. yeah. does it i'm glad is there need a supporting anyways, because in donna, there's a long tradition of sending money home from abroad. i will say it's broke up our course. i yeah. here it fly. if you lot less, 8 avo aids all your parents and so forth. she gets a little feeds in hell. yes. so if a law martha here, i don't know i'll be by here and on market. most other families, they live. we love to support each other that our pin, it is an offer on things like money and standards. linda isn't or, but she still needs to manage her money. well, give shopping at the market requires some haggling. there are no fixed prices here

. linda can't afford her own car. she takes the boss and said, that's sometimes been a pain during the pandemic, but it's the only option. and with at cruise, chaotic traffic driving is hardly a pleasure. she knows from her mother and stepfather, that some aspects of life might be easier in germany. now, good, we are good yet. but if you have that opportunity bay fabica that way, when it's in classes you, you might by way school. my friend is building it out here. he says she said that there s e c building. she that she is was want to bid on. how often those i thought it was in the us that the it would go to hell of a lengthy me. i'm yeah, a gun. i went to the fan school to see. i love nothing to soon. a few 1000 kilometers

away in the german city of mannheim. it's early morning and then the step father is on his way to work. a quasi, i do say, came to germany as a student, almost 30 years ago. he's lived in mannheim. ever since, for many gannons, immigrating is part of life. not the most vile. so does that mean i was one of 8 children. the 4 older sister stayed and gone, and the boys all moved abroad. us rest and the amendment ali dana on via the brothers overseas, all support the family, the buddha in all. we've been doing that ever since we started living here in germany. lucky besides you here in little on fallen with a voice on not just his own children. are the relatives also ask a quasi for money doctor? oh, go on. good allen, aunt and uncle. the whole family was we helped them to the boat and got people and gone. i always expect that when someone comes from abroad or lives abroad or does

that, they'll support the rest of the family good, formerly. and that's what we do. so as those wells because he lives on the outskirts of mannheim with his wife and linda's half brother. he has a job with the u. s. army he finds to pay ok, but even so, there isn't much money left at the end of the month in order to give regular support to their daughter, linda. the family has to economize and save. many migrants in the diaspora are in a similar situation. but a quasi has discovered something that might help a friend told him about a project called we do, which aims to support people in countries like gonna, the goal is to create new jobs in africa. this extra support will be just what linda needs a quasi and his wife christiana would love for their daughter to become independent and for linda, her own business would be a dream come true. under that. it is where it goes on is not only selling and buying buy. yeah. she goes will know how to do. yeah. her friends,

you wanted to do len. this the bridge. briggs then bit los and way up to leah. gov. she have a very dreadful grip. woodrow are found on wow, linda old bring half of the money you before to put it in just supportive to half of it then when it would have started and reduce will bring another 50 percent to to liquid. oh, how did you go? linda's mother christiana, went to germany 18 years ago, leaving her 2 daughters with their grandmother. something not uncommon in ghana because his record, not all of us can come here. so when you i hear and you support from one home, still there do from tim. you can find from to, for yourself, i think is very good idea. that not everybody will because a rope is not for everybody. a lot of me,

i know why i'm seeing that. so for me, i think is the, the idea they called a daughter in accra. linda, good one. hi. how you doing? i'm fine. i'm doing good. and for example, in the business will cost you lexi us, he told linder about the we do project a few days ago. now they working at how they can each get their own share of the funding together. find our funded euros. for example. then i guess is it an, as your father wasn't support you the other 50 percent, which is the from the use of talk with mommy and i have already prepared to support you so that you become self sufficient for the future. okay. wow. thank you. high school, thank you. and i'll be always monday. yes. bed act. yes. as you so, but that was that's how things are done. back holiday div shows was were lung as

long as the children still need support from the parents with the parents do it. and thus, morgan gemini, state development agency g, i said, has been implementing the weedy project for the past 2 years. the project director of vol fransen. so the strategy is as simple as it is successful. buford, on their ownership. we support all sorts of different projects says that the small and micro levels of business and he just fell down this christ fun and everything from a small hair dressing business to a car mechanic to a small i t start up regarding somebody taking their 1st steps as an independent programmer, a lot that we support lots of different sectors. her and told her she did a coin to perform. and you know, linda is successful. would you go to acura for a hair cut to preserve? does my job unify? i'd love to do that ish. in fact, before covered when i was make my business trips, i often got a haircut on the spur of the moment. tom madsen was it. i'd love to do it and gone

to hanna zagan. authentic get to know the entrepreneur personally. can lam before that can happen. the family has to get its share of the funding together. when a client in christiana, do their shopping and manheim, they still love going to the local african grocery store. in la didn't store owner joanna i re, has been in germany around 2 decades. she came with her husband who has since passed away. she sells yams, mangoes and the spice is a quasi. and christiana, no, from back on. yeah, yeah, this one. yeah. the army from gun of the blunt in from south america. oh yeah. no. my lead of her baby thought read that they know my have my fingers live. i love it. okay. one, you know i'm, i'm not a type that i send money to my,

my family. i take care of my mother. i was taking care of my mother for that. it was mainly because i was the 1st fest daughter for my mother faith. jade. so is my responsibility to take care of my mom. but after my mother lived i dont and i have nothing to do like money money with call today i've called my brother how are you what i do? but we don't talk about selling money because they are old. they are not young family. thank you very much. i christiana works as a cara for the elderly. she spent 18 years living in germany without her daughter's night. the linda nor her sister had been able to visit her in mannheim. christiana only troubles home for a few weeks every couple of years. oh yes,

sometimes. oh, it's her, it's pain. sometimes you feel it's that you miss them all you wish to be read them together about what can i do? i mean i for beginning in was for hard for me and by now we're miss them. yeah. when we go home, we feel i told them i would go and visit a lot of people ask me. oh christina, when are you going back to gun a month or warburg to gonna but i'll come back here is my 2nd hall. meanwhile, christian is daughters of building their future and garner a few weeks later we had to i crap, our taxi driver gideon has an uncle in germany to it. it seems p d on isn't as lucky as linda when it comes to getting financial help from relatives

and the 5th of boarding his family, indiana. oh god, oh no, no. oh said andrew, regards only is a small farming wire friendly piece. but when we need something, we are same results. the same story story is all we're living his life the house linda lives in is still incomplete. at some point, her biological father ran out of money for the building work, but she's making progress toward her own dream. the 1st installment of the we do project funding has arrived. she could now start planning her hair salon business. it's an exciting time for the entrepreneur to be those defend because law is like i'm building something for myself. oh, so well main that told me about it and know how it was like a good, a great opportunity for me to just ask something for my own. so i'm happy to become

a business woman here and be happy to become my own both the and, oh yay. the next day in the sets off full of motivation and with the new hairstyle to there's a lot she wants to learn in the next few months. so far, she's operated out of her home dealing and ready made waves. but she wants to be able to brade die, and do everything else that comes with running a hair salon. hey, pieces and extensions have a central place in gummy and fashion. linda's friend gladys has been running a hair salon for years. she's showing linda the basics. mm.

hm and then it will become like today's thursday. and then how are you okay, sounds good. thank you for the change and take okay, just make sure it's okay. my one has a teach me how she's back at home. i just, i feel like me to a home before she go to shop. so i want to show me how she gets initially, you know, when it gets mentioned, you have to pay for the range like 5 years. that's what you pay 5 years.

whenever you get a book from someone, i think it's it's, it also helps me to me money when my business goes some money. and now i'm on my feet right now. i don't have that kind of money. so one step at a time to start linda plans to continue selling henry's from home. the journey to our christ central market takes 90 min. this is where the best can extend the song, the selection. but the main reason linda shot is because the price is a good back in her neighborhood. she can sell the hair pieces for small markup generation, a profit for her project. the. everybody has the prices here because i went different shops, but it was expensive when i came in, the prices is literally low. so that's why i buy my hair for me. and i like

customer service. when you conscious smiles with you and you know there's not a very nice and you know, i feel i was by the next day planning for the son continues. she's visited by solomon warm a business mentor working for the we do projects in ghana, the consultant waste no time in asking linda the most important question of all, why the hell is not anything else? i forgot to see i was just looking at the market to know what is going, what the savings i don't put money into something that you know, look up my money. the most important aspect of the coaching program as to what we need to do to make sure that the current business model that makes sense for

whatever idea the have or whatever business idea running with is, is the model that will determine how the business functions and how we growth out. linda has found a very good support, grateful to start from, given that she is an effect where there's enough demand, financial demand to meet here, and 20 profitable, and broader business to the extent that she can even hire people. i'm glad to be in fact, i really want to get no, i wasn't given. why did that well, how to do this might be doing. how's these make fun my so i really need more interest in it. yeah. location are already a few hands. saelens inland is neighborhood

the you have a southern coastal well i think actually when you look at your target filling too, it makes a lot more sense to have an active online preference because we're selling millennials younger generation and they are very more engaged online. so doing a lot more online and for the business clients, the children development in c g i said pace for the cost of the business mentoring for, for the next few months. solomon will give linda advice and help her on her way to becoming a self sufficient entrepreneur. or even if we b check up, he sees his role as the perfect compliment to the private support. linda's getting from her family don't have enough. if the call shop away, you still have to pay for rent. you have the rails cost to deal with,

or the the payment form, the diaspora into gonna those when it comes with up a very important and critical. i don't have the figures read me to give you, but when, when you have the economist dr. essex, the remittance of that comes into dana form abroad, especially germany, one to 200000000 of you on that comes in to set up the form of the catalytic funding without that kind of referrals, i don't think would have had that kind of progress and development you feel at home free by this brian, though not everyone is benefiting from that progress. many people in gala still live below the poverty line. the average wage is just a $110.00 euros per month. subscribe by recycling items from garbage dumps, including electronic waste shipped from year after all, not every gwanae and has relatives in a wealthy country. linda knows that at the end of the day, she's in

a good position. linda's happy to get a visit from her sister. i rain there preparing a meal together. our cargo read with our hands. our look on this. i really lives outside our crop. she and her children visit linda whenever they can. i rein doesn't depend on financial support from her parents. her husband earns a decent living with his job as a teacher. who did the 2 sisters feel abandoned with their mother? so miss children. oh, oh. okay, actually no, i'm going. i don't really feel that yoga. sometimes you feel lonely. you wish you have all your family, you know you, richie, i say with your mom, your dad you thought your brother like my son, faith law here. she can play with the record a gift on vacation if they are not here, you know, it's not a full only by

a half lansing stuff in the how things i'm doing and so, so it doesn't make me feel all think about it too much. the honor, spencer. oh yeah, yeah. we are human some very poorly, so you miss your family are on bad weather. you got what kind of linda know? some gym and phrases ready in case she takes a trip to visit her parents. i low good morgan look and fad with the album m a law a v give is via v gave them with the banker elm. ah, i don't. okay. own mm. linda stream is slowly taking shape. it's a dream that doesn't involve leaving home. like so many other ghanaians do back in mannheim. it's saturday and linda's step father doesn't have to work,

but he still gets up early in the morning. as well as his own family ties to gonna a quasi. a do say is also chairman of the gun a and dias per community and germany went through the document 1212, testing like what, why samantha, he hosts a radio show for car ne and sleeping in germany as he says, of eustace. well, this is very, very important here for you. there are so many radio stations here, but most of them are only and germinal butch migrants want to know what's going on in their home country wanting to some bus in your how my boss at the sending me off . we broadcast in english and also in gunny in languages. it's very important women . first, it was very people understand what's going on here in germany. when we explain everything in those languages, a clear why?

oh, a my. the topic today is all about remittances. payments from the diaspora to gone out with what they know you, boa says some c ologist who has lived in germany for a long time. how useful is this ideal rentals is where people living in germany and advice were helping the country gunner oh, so i think out with remittances, it is not only people living in germany who are remitted to family or was transfer money to family. i am even if you're living in ghana and you're working in the north, are you awaken in the kumasi? so depending on where you are living, it's a whole family structure or social support system that we have in please. dorothy,

as the germans rely on the states while we rely on the family rag yearly english because in ghana the government can't do much for us. martin, the in germany, if you don't have a job, you go to the unemployment office kind drop. if you're sick, there's health insurance and social programs. frank and frank and for the several adults with yeah, there's always something in the system that benefits the people. him still, but for us it's the family emma. i am the common about by owns as a family. ah, in on sunday it's time to rest. the a do say family eats unless you leave breakfast together. well, whenever we're in morrisville, are you doing? when they're all together they tend to speak english. but the meal looks like a typical german breakfast. or hope to would

to me more than a soft or her hand delivered the night before. okay. a clancy fills them in on linda's progress in ghana to go. she went to children just started at lennon missile. very sudden. which would be her own boss. herself in tears. nathan has never lived with his step sister's his own. he met her on short visits to gonna but the 2 still have a close relationship. this is was mission can that's almost it was a childhood dream for me that she'd come here and she's my sister and he used to get sad that she wasn't here so much be mentioned, gone over me guns and version after we would visit ghana. i was always sad and i'd say to my parents, when is she coming here? talk on linda's to use. i have a good relationship with my other sister to those no 5 up, but i think i'm closest with linda lice. matthews, as often you are like,

the other one is already married and has her own children. us would you? she's grown up with you. been with the younger sister? it's more like where body cylinder is. come work. we ask nathan whether he might have preferred to had some of the money. his parents had sent to lender over the years. come in. line asked as ugly slauson honestly now. as far as i know where they send it to us since lycos hope i have enough things here in the hopes eobs knudsen and there are fewer opportunities there. also my mil vinegar here i have more options, open to me maps you often wonders as a good reason to send them money. they're gone. so garcia, decide to hand shaking real soon does piece of, but that is algorithm with mishma our, our hope is that now we won't have to keep sending something each month to support her that says 0 yet. so certainly she'll become independent at all commission of what in band she won't expect us to keep helping out every month. one does to some got it up to now. is it ok?

i mean, electron films that will make everything easier, knowing there's a bright future ahead in the me who to super does. we were hoping for the best. who from dasa? alice? good. good loved. yeah. linda and her family. i just one example of the millions of migrant supporting their loved ones back home. these a family size that span the globe with in the future, a quasi will be counting on his daughter to make her own way. but if things do ever get ties, he can rest easy knowing he still has a list of all the money transfer offices around town. ah, ah

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