mediterranean, ah, it's waters connect people of many cultures? siena almost rock and to far abdul karim drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean. where has history left its traces. reading people, hearing their dreams, a mediterranean journey in tenant snorts august 14th on the w. ah, across the capital of ghana, in west africa, linda is a young gunny and 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 will come from her

family who live in germany. linda's step father 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. one month. yes. awesome. when you live abroad, like we do in germany, your family back home usually doesn't leave as comfortably as you do missile for with google live. that's why it's really important that we support our families back home with the formula in the heart districts. so if you have a parental support you there by the at least it helps with elsa. me my parents, i'm elected basin. i always say, i'm glad i have love you fairly. 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, galleria that our issue here. we are re, they, you know, software here with you read get that you had with your parents as you go and everything by 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 way,

the monthly my bills pay. my bills are home. as opposed to me with food stuff like i gets myself. i will do i hey, you know i'm a lady yet ivy. i'm glad. is there really supporting anyways, because in donna there's a long tradition of sending money home from abroad. i was a spoke up our course. i yeah, here if lie, if you lot less, ada avo adds all a appearance. as of course you get a real feeds in l. yes. so if a law thing here, i don't lab, they buy here and on market, most other families, they live. we love to support each other as our been fools. it is an offer on things like money and standards. linda isn't or, but she still needs to manage her money. well, give them shopping at the market. requires some haggling. there are no fixed prices

here. linda can't afford her own car. she takes the boss instead. 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 like, might be easier in germany. now, good. who is we are good yet. but if you have that opportunity bay fabica, that is when, when is in classes here you my by way school life ran is built into our ca. he says, she said, is there s e z building? she's actually is, was, was a bit on how often those, yes, i have with that the it would go to hell of a lengthy me. i'm yeah, a gun. i went to the same school to see. i love nothing to soon. a few 1000 kilometers

away in the german city of mannheim. it's early morning and linda's 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 after she rests 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're here in britain on fulton with a voice on not just his own children. are the relatives also ask a quasi for money doctor? oh, go on. good allen. and to the 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 to be formerly. and that's what we do. so as those wells of course 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 either 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 ghana. 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 i would be goes, ivan 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 the wow. in limbo. 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 as well as was 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 cause a rope is not for everybody. a lot of me,

i know why i am seeing that. so for me, i think is a good idea. they called their 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, as he told linda 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. fine art for 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. yes. as you so back mountains,

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. da smokin' 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 at 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 at 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 linda is successful, would you get an accurate for a hair cut to preserve? does myself 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. one of my time was it. i'd love to do it and

gone to hanna zagan authentic, get to know the entrepreneur personally. it can lam before that can happen. the family has to get its share of the funding together with when a quasi in christiana, do their shopping and mannheim. they still loved going to their local african grocery store and i didn't store owner joanna, i re, has been in germany around 2 decades, which 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 plant in from south america. oh, yeah. normally the pip a thought bed that they know my health, my fingers live a life. is 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 made you to because i was the face. fed daughter for my mother fez tide. so is my responsibility to take care of my mom. but after my mother i live i dont and i have nothing to do like money money with call today of call, my brother, how are you what i doing but we don't talk about selling money because the old we are not young family. i can run a mark oh good. 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 have been able to visit her in mannheim. christiana only troubles home for a few weeks. every couple of years. oh yeah.

sometimes. oh, it's a, it's pain. sometimes you feel it's that you will miss them all you risk to be with them together about what can i do? i mean i for begin it. it was for hard, for me a by now we're miss them here. when we go home will feel i told as i recall a visit in a lot of the before acts me august. now when are you going back to gun and those are war bout to gun about. i'll come back here is my 2nd hall. meanwhile, chris john, his daughters of building their future in ghana. a few weeks later we had to i crap. our taxi driver gideon has an uncle in germany. did it seems p d on isn't as lucky as linda when it comes to getting financial help from relatives

. and this is supporting his family. i'm gonna, oh gosh, no, no, i was at at drew. rosalie is me small for me, wireframe, the keys. but when we need something, we are same results, the same stories, stories all fit will live for 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 is 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 bait those different because and i was like, i'm building something for myself. oh, so when main that told me about it and all 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. be happy to become my own both the know 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. hair pieces and extensions have a central place in gunny and fashion. linda's friend gladys has been running a hair salon for years. she's showing linda the basics. me ah ah,

that will be at any good because like today's my phase day and then how are you okay. sounds good. thank you for coming in 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 means a home before she go to shop. so i want her to show me how she gets initially when i get to measure, you have to see me for the range, like 5 years. that's what you paid 5 years. whenever you get a book from someone,

i think it's it's, it also helped me to mean money when my business good 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 hair ways from home. the journey to our christ central market takes 19 minutes. this is where the best here, extensions are sold, the selection. but the main reason linda shot is because the process is a good back in her neighborhood. she can sell the hair pieces for small markup generation or profit for her project. the. yeah, everybody has the prices here because i went to the print shop, but it was expensive when i came in, there prices is literally low. so that's why i buy my hair from you. and i like

customer service. when you conscious smiles with you and you know she's not grateful if they are very nice and you know, i feel call someone by the next day planning for the son continues. she's visited by solomon to me, a business mentor working for the we do project in ghana, the consultant waste no time in asking linda the most important question of all, why the hell isn't it? not anything else? i can see i was i was just looking at the markets to know what is going what the saying, i don't put my name to something i can look up my money. the most important aspect of the coaching program as to what we need to make sure that the current business

model that makes sense for whatever idea they have or whatever business idea running with is the model that will determine how the business functions and how we growth what i'll see, linda has found a very good support, grateful to start from, given that she is an effect on 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 more. i want you to give y d as well. how to my business. how once go is in house, even? it's fun. my so i really need more coaching interest in if we see her location. i know we're already a few hands salons inland as neighbourhood a

to have a fellow physical store. well, i think actually when you look at your targets that you are selling to, it makes a lot more sense to have an active online presence because you're selling feelin, meals, younger generation and they are very more engaged online. so doing a lot more online, see feel up of course and for the business clients you the chairman, development agency g, i say to 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 in your weekly basis. check up. he sees his role is the compliment to the private support. linda's getting from her family. don't have enough with the carl shop away. you still have to pay for rent, you have the rails cost to deal with,

or that the payment from 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 do what they call a mixed up to sticks the remittances that comes into dana form abroad, especially germany, 100 liam of yours and dot com. same to set up the form of the catalytic funding without that kind of remittance i've on thing would have had that kind of progress and development in a county. by this time though, not everyone is benefiting from that progress. many people in gonna 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 because with our hands are low partners. 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 answered decent living with his job as a teacher. who did the 2 sisters feel abandoned with their mother left them as children? clone. okay, actually. now i'm going to, i don't really feel that yoga. sometimes you feel lonely. you wish you have all your family. you know you, richie, i stay with your mom, your dad. you thought your brother like my son, faith know here. she can play with the record a kiss on vacation. if they are not here, you know, a full only by

a half way as in stuff in the how think i'm doing it 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 in bands letting out walk, anita. linda knows some german phrases ready in case she takes a trip to visit her parents. i lo, good logan. luke and fad with the album l. my law, every gift every year we gave them with the banker elm. ah, i oh, okay. own mm. linda's name is slowly taking shape. it's a dream that doesn't involve leaving home. like so many other ghanaians dead. back in mannheim, it's such a day 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 in germany. what through does the like 1212 does to like what, why samantha, he hosts radia shy from ne, in sleeping in germany. and he says, of risk as well. this is very, very important here, but in his control field, there are so many radio stations here, but most of them are only germinal butch migrants want to know what's going on in their home country, wellington bus in your how my boss at the sending me we broadcast an english and also and guardian languages. it's very important women 1st, it was very people understand what's going on here in germany. when we explain everything in those languages. a clearing

oh, a on the topic today is all about remittances payments from the diaspora to gonna williams a club, a know you bought some c ologist who has lived in germany for a long time. how useful is this idea of rentals is where people living in dillman you 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 place. deep joy t as

a 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 b 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 shuttle that will suit the out. 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 home toward

me. morgan with soft or hard drive. i don't need the full. okay, i'm, i'm a grassy fills them in on linda's progress in ghana after go. she went to children, just started, the atlanta missile very shouldn't and we beat her tone boss herself in tears. nathan has never lived with his step sisters. his own. he met her on short visits to garner, but the 2 still have a close relationship, says vas michelle 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. must be mentioned, ganymede guns and version after we would visit gonna i was always sad and i'd say to my parents when she coming here talk on linda's, this might have a good relationship with my other sister to those on file. but i think i'm closest with linda lice. matthews's also knew about the other one is already married and

has her own children. us would you? she's grown up and you've been with the younger sister. it's more like my buddy sunday is come on. we asked nathan whether he might have preferred to had some of the money. his parents had sent to linda over the years. come in line exquisite miss wilson honestly. now suppose so. i know why they send it to us since lycos hope i have enough things here in the hope he argues knudsen and are fewer opportunities there also my mil vinegar here i have more options. open to me maps, you often wonder there's a good reason to send them money. they're gone. so i go see the side to hand shaking real. who does this of but that is already with miss mary. oh it, our hope is that now we won't have to keep sending something each month to support her. that says, is easy with yet. so certainly she'll become independent with ultimate, of what in and she won't expect us to keep helping out every month. one does to some got it. okay. now it is a ok, i mean,

electron films that will make everything easier. knowing there is a bright future ahead image. he just took food as we were hoping for the best. hoofing does 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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