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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 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 with lung. yeah. awesome. when you live abroad, like we do in germany, your family back home usually doesn't live as comfortably as you do me. so good with google live. 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, she thereby be at least it helps with also me, my parents, i'm relativism. i always see glad to have 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 a 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. yeah, that's our issue here. yeah. we there, you know, software here use you read kid that we are 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 send it to support a monthly my bills. my bills are home, as opposed to 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 70. they support me anyways, because in donna does a long tradition of sending money home from abroad. i was a spoke up our course. i am here. if i, if you not, let's say you don't have a job, a appearance and so forth. she gets a real feeds in l. yes. so if a law ma thing here, i don't know i'll be by here said on marking was other families they live. we love to support each other that our pin, this is al africa. ah,

my gun ian standards. linda isn't poor, but she still needs to manage her money. well. 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 chris, 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 had that opportunity bay fabica had this way. when is in classes you you my by with my friend is building it out. ca. he say she said that there s e c building. she said she was want to get on and off it goes off of

her head with it wouldn't go off. definitely they see me, i'm yeah, a gun. i went to the same school to see. i love living 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 had to 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 vol. busy so i was one of 8 children. the 4 older sister stayed and gonna, and the boys all moved abroad after his wrist and the amendment ali gonna 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 decides you. here in brooklyn, fuller, we're definitely not just his own children. other relatives also ask

a quasi for money. dr. on good an to do uncle. the whole family was we helped them to vote and got people and gone. i always expect that when someone comes from abroad or lives abroad, or does that though, support the rest of the family good before really on. that's what we do. so as those levels 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. irene, 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. that it is where it would be goes on, is not only selling and buying buy. yeah, she got also a little hard to do. yeah. her friends, you wanted to do len. this, the briggs briggs then been loss and way obviously, i think of she have a very dreadful grip. would you are found on wow, at linda old bring half of the money you before to put it. you can just supportive to half of it then when it would have started and renewals will bring another 50 percent to to liquid. oh, how to who got linda's mother christiana went to germany 18 years ago, leaving her 2 daughters with their grandmother. something not uncommon in gonna pass on. that was his record. not all of us can come here. so when you i hear and

you support from one home still there do frontin. you can find some 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'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, for example, the busiest will cost you less c, 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. why amount for funded heroes, for example. then i. ringback this 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. oh,

okay. wow. thank you. high school. thank you, and i'll be always be in monday. yes. bed act. yes. as a super mellows, 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. the effort and 0 ownership, like we support all sorts of different projects, says that the small and micro levels of business and if you felt undisguised fun and everything from a small hair dressing business to a car mechanic to a small i t start up with somebody taking their 1st steps as an independent programmer, i'm yolanda we support lots of different sectors. her and told her she did

a coin to florida. and melinda successful, would you go to acura for a hair cut to preserve das, 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 of my time was it? i'd love to do it and gone to anna 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 did a store owner joanna, i re, has been in germany around to decades. she came with her husband who has since passed away. she sells yams, mangoes and the spice is a quantity. and christiana, no, from back on. yeah, yeah, this one. yeah. the army from gun

a bit different in from south america. oh yeah. normally the pip a thought that they know my have my fingers live a life. is it okay. i 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 5th fest daughter for my mother fez tight. 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 doing? but we don't talk about selling money because the are 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

neither 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 miss them all you risk to be with them together. about what can i do? i mean, i for beginning, it was so hard for me and by now we're miss there. mia? when we go home, will feel i told, as i recall and visited a lot of that before acts me august. now when are you going back to go? now? lazar warburg to gonna, but i'll come back here is my 2nd home. meanwhile,

christianity daughters of building their future in gonna a few weeks later, we had to accurate. our taxi driver. gideon has an uncle in germany. it seems p d on isn't as lucky as linda when it comes to getting financial help from relatives . and this is supporting this family. i'm gonna, i'm gonna no, no, i'll said andrew. rosalie is small for me. wire friendly keys. but when we need something, we asked him results saying story stories or it 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 be those defend requests and i was

like, i'm building something for myself. oh. so when 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. you know? yay! the next day linda 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 braid di and do everything else that comes with running a hair salon. hair pieces and extensions have a central place in ghana and fashion. linda's friend gladys has been running a hair salon for years. she's showing linda the basics. me

me at any good because like today's my phase and i'm in house. okay. sounds good and can you please thank you for the change and take a look at just make sure it's okay. my one has a teach me how much you also satellite me to

a home before you 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 rates like 5 years. that's what you pay in 5 years. whenever you get this a book from someone, i think it's it's, it also helps me to me money when my business goes right 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. here we go from home, the journey to our christ central market takes 90 minutes. this is where the best here extensions, 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 their prices here because i went to the print shop, but it was expensive when i came in their prices. it's literally look by my hair for me and i like your customer service gods. when you conscious smiles with you and you know, it's just not straightforward. and this is a very nice and you know, i forgot 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 project in ghana, the consultant waste no time in asking linda the most important question of all, why the hell is not anything else? i actually see i was just looking at the

market to know what is going with a selling. i don't put money into something like and granted know look up my money . the most important aspect of the coaching program as to what these enter for, to make sure that they are coming out of business model. that makes sense for whatever idea they have or whatever business idea running with as a model that will determine how the business functions and how we growth out. linda has found a very good sports, grateful to start from, given that she is an effect on when there's enough demand, especially on demand to me care, actually profitable and broader business to the extent that she can even hire people. i'm glad to be. in fact, i really want to talk more about alex and get to know i wanted to give him why did about how to might be doing in house, even

a fund my so i really need more coaching interest in it. yeah. location are already a few hands, saelens inland as neighborhood oh, that sounds like with the saloon 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 for 1000000 meals, younger generation and they're very more engaged online. so doing a lot more online. so you feel up of course, and for the business clients you the chairman, development agency, g i said 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. if you're a weekly basis 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 that the payment from the diaspora into gonna those when it comes up very, 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 artistic, the remittance of that comes into dana form abroad, especially germany, one to 200000000 views. and that comes in to set up the form of a catalytic funder without a panel romito, i don't think would have had that kind of progress and development in that whole 3 . 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. subscribed by recycling items from garbage dumps, including electronic waste shipped from year after all, not every gun a 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 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 answered decent living with his job as a teacher. did the 2 sisters feel abandoned with their mother left them as children? oh, okay, actually. now i'm going to,

i don't really feel that yoga something you feel lonely. you wish you have all your family. you know you, richie, i say with your mom, your dad, you face your brother, like my son, faith law here. she can play visit record a kiss on vacation if they are not here, you know, off a full only by a half lansing stuff in how things are doing so. so it doesn't make me feel all think about it too much. the honor. spencer. i yeah. we are human, some very poorly. so you miss your family are on in vance. letty not walk on either . linda? no, some german phrases ready in case she takes a trip to visit her parents. i know because logan luke and fad with the album l. my law a v give is via the gave them with the banker, elm ah, i own. okay. own mm. linda's dream is slowly taking shape. it's

a dream that doesn't involve leaving home. like so many other ghanaians do bank 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 garner a quasi. a do say is also chairman of the gun. a ann dias per community in germany worked through dusty mike, 1212, testing what, what, why samantha, he hosts a radio show for carnations living in germany as he says, of eustace. well, this is very, very important here, but in this case will feel there are so many radio stations here, but most of them are only and germinal, deutsche migrants want to know what's going on in their home country wanting be

some bus in your how my boss at the sending me off, we broadcast in english and also in gunny and languages says it's very important. women for student was very people understand what's going on here in germany when we explain everything in those languages. atlanta. oh yeah. oh, i wonder. mm hm. and the topic today is all about remittances payments from the diaspora to gonna williams a quite they know you're boa systems geologist who has lived in germany for a long time. how useful is this? i deal with doses where people living in germany and advice were helping the country younger. oh, so i think out with remittances, it is not only people living in germany who remit 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 reliant states. while we rely on the family rag geren nga 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, him. but for us it's the family emma. i am the common about buy 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 who would to me, morgan and hollywood soft or her hand delivered the night before. okay. and i'm a clancy fills them in on linda's progress in ghana. after she told me she just started the atlanta, missoula. rob gary sheldon, read her own boss herself written here. nathan has never lived with his step sister. his own. he met her on short visits to garner. but the 2 still have a close relationship. as above 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. why she mentioned gone all of the guns and version after we would visit ghana. i was always sad and had say to my parents when she coming here talked on linda hostess. i have a good relationship with my other sister to choir up, but i think i'm closest with linda lice, mother as often you want like the other one is already married and has her own children. us. would you? she's grown up diapers. that with the younger sister, it's more like were buddies from work. we asked nathan whether he might have preferred to had some of the money. his parents had sent to lender over the years coming line asked as ugly slauson honestly no disposal. i know why they sent it to us since like the salve i have enough things here in the hope. he obstinate sutton, and there are fewer opportunities there. also, my mil vinegar here, i have more options. open to me maps, you often wonder as a good reason to send the money they're gone. so i go see the side to hand shaking will. who does this of but that is already with mishma. our. our hope is that now we won't have to keep sending something each month to support her. that says,

is delivered yet. so certainly she'll become independent with optimus of what and, and she won't expect us to keep helping out every month. little does to some got oh to now it is a ok, i mean, electron fills 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, 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 gloves with in the future. a quantity will be counting on his daughter to make her own white. 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.

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