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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. 8 combined. when one. yeah. and also when you live abroad, like we do in germany, your family back home usually doesn't live as comfortably as you do. it's all folded with douglas 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, she thereby be at least it helps. it helps me my parents. i'm a lot of busy. i always see. i'm glad i have loved very 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, that's our issue here. yeah. re there, you know, software here use you read get that you had blood with your parents as you go and everything but no definite job. yes, very difficult. on the white, 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 monthly my bills, pay my bills at home,

and so forth. me with food stuff like i get myself. i will do i, hey, you know, i'm a lady. yeah. does it? i'm glad you said we need a support anyways, because in donna does a long tradition of sending money home from abroad. i will say it's broke up our course i down here. if lie. if you not, let's say you don't have a eggs, all 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 law market, most other families id love to support each other. that's all i think 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 and said, that's sometimes been a pain during the pandemic, but it's the only option. and with was chaotic traffic driving is hardly a pleasure. she knows from her mother and step father, that some aspects of life might be easier in germany. now good, we uncle? yes. but if he had that opportunity bay fabica had this brain. when is in classes here? my by way school. my friend is building a house here. he says she said that there s e c building. she says she wants a bid on how often boucher, i wouldn't. i wouldn't go to mail if before they see me. i'm yay gun. i went to the same school. to see. i have nothing to show a few 1000 kilometers away in the german city of mannheim. it's early morning and

linda stepfather is on his way to work a quasi. a do say, came to germany as a student almost 30 years ago. he's lived in mannheim ever since, for many gannons immigrating is pumps of life. lamazzo does. i was one of 8 children. the 4 older sister stayed in gonna, and the boys all moved abroad. i've taught us 1st and the amendment ali gala on via the brothers overseas, all support the family, you buddha, in all. we've been doing that ever since we started living here in germany. lucky besides you here in britain on fulton which i think wish or not just his own children, other relatives also ask a quasi for money. don't. busy it all good allah and to the uncle, the whole family was we helped them to vote and got people. and gonna 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 on. that's what we do.

so those levels across he lives on the outskirts of manheim, with his wife and linda's half brother. he has a job with the u. s. army. he wants 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 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. lenders of it is where it goes on is not only selling and buying buy. yeah. she goes will know how to do. yeah. her friends, she wanted to do len,

this the brigand briggs then better we lost their way. absolutely. i think of you have a very dreadful grip. would you are found on the wow in limbo, bring half of the money we live for. to put it, you can just put a roof to half of it. then when to put the started and we do was will bring another 50 percent to to liquid. oh, hardly 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 from tim. you can find some to for yourself. i think is very good idea. that not everybody will cause a rob. it's not for everybody. a lot of me, i know why i'm seeing that. so for me, i think,

is it 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. why i'm are funded heroes for example. then i. ringback this is it, as your father wasn't for what 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 be monday. yes. back. yes. i so bad. that was that's how things are done. back holiday shows was were lung as long as the

children still need support from the parents, with the parents do it in the smoking. 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 0 winter sheet, we support all sorts of different projects. says that the small and micro levels of business and if you fold undisguised fund and everything from a small hair dressing business to a car mechanic at a small i t start up with somebody taking their 1st steps as an independent programmer, help me a lot that we support lots of different sectors. her canceled, her, she did a coin to perform. and you know, linda successful, would you get an 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 lamb. but

before that can happen, the family has to get its share of the funding together. when a quasi in christiana, do their shopping and manheim, they still love going to the local african grocery store. la didn't store owner joanna. i re, has been in germany around to decades, which 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 guy. yeah. the army from gun of at the front. any from south america? oh yeah. no my lead of her baby thought by 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 face fed daughter for my mother phase. jade. 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 i've called my brother how are you what i doing but we don't talk about selling money because they are old. they are not young family. thank you very much. i yeah, christiana works as a cara for the elderly. she spent 18 years living in germany without her daughters, 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 yes,

sometimes. oh, it's her, it's pain. sometimes you feel it's that he'll miss them all you wish to be with them together? about what can i do? i mean, i for beginning it was for hard. for me a by now. we're miss there. mia? when we go home, we feel at, on those i recall a visit. a lot of that before acts me august. now when are you going back to gun a month? or war bout to gun about? i'll come back here is my 2nd home. meanwhile, christianity daughters of building their future in gonna a few weeks later we had a crap. 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 was it drew a garzo leads me small family 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 can 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 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. be happy to become my own both you know?

yea, 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 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. me ah ah

ah at any good because like today's my phase day 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 started school much. she also like me to a home before he got a shot. so i want her to show me how she gets initially when it gets mentioned, you have to pay aim 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's, it also helps to me money when my business goof 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 highways from home. the journey to our christ central market takes 90 minute. this is where the best hand extension for song 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. everybody has the prices here because i went to the print shop, but it was expensive when i came in the prices it's literally low. so that's why i buy my hair for me. and i like customer service because when you conscious small

with you and you know is not great for a very nice and you know, i feel someone 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? actually i forgot to see i i was just looking at the markets to know what is going with the ceiling. i don't put money into something that granted the lock up my money, the most important aspect of the coaching program as to what we these interpretive to make sure that they are coming out of business model. that makes sense for

whatever idea they have or whatever that they are running with as the model that will determine how the business functions and how we growth. while our linda has found a very good sports or breakable to start from given that she is an effect on aware there's enough demand, substantial demand to make her actually profitable and grow their business to the extent that she can even hire people. i'm glad i'm here to be. no. in fact, i really want to talk more about counselor gets no more. i wanted to give him ideas about how to play with my business, how goods go in house, even expand my so i really need more coaching interest. and if we see the location, there are already a few hair salons inland. his neighborhood a

to have a saloon, a physical store? well, i think actually when you look at the targets that you are selling to, it makes a lot more sense to have an active online presence because you're selling for millennials, younger generation and they're very more engaged online. so doing a lot more online c field of course, and for the business clients, 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 complement to the private support. linda's getting from her family. don't have enough of the col shop away. you still have to pay for rent, you have the rails cost to deal with 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 the economy statistics, the remittance of that comes into dana from abroad, especially germany, one to 200000000000 of views. and that comes said us the formal mechanics. wonder what other panels remittance i don't think would have had that kind of progress and development that hopefully by this time though not everyone is benefiting from that progress. many people are gonna still live below the poverty line. the average wage is just a $110.00 euros per month. some scrape 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. we need to put 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 earns a decent living with his job as a teacher. who 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 here. know you, richie, i say with your mom, your dad with us, 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, a full only by a half way is in coffee and a half. been gone,

doing so. so it doesn't make me fuel. think about it too much. dana spencer. i yeah. we are human, some very booley, so you miss your family are on in bed, whether you got what can i, you know, linda know, some german phrases ready in case she takes a trip to visit her parents. i low, good morgan is in fad with album l. my law a v gifts is the it we gave them with the banker. oh 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 gwanae instead 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 gonna a quasi a do say is go. so chairman of the gun, a and dias per community in germany worked through dusty my 1212 does to like what, why samantha, he hosts radio shy for canadians living in germany. and he says overseas, 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 butch migrants want to know what's going on in their home country. wellington bus in your how my boss at the sending it off. we broadcast in english and also in gunny in languages. it's very important women pushed in was that people understand what's going on here in germany. when we explain everything in those languages. a

in the topic today is all about remittances payments from the diaspora to gonna williams a quote. they know you, boa systems geologist who has lived in germany for a long time. how useful is this ideal rentals is? we're good. we're living in germany and advice were helping the country gunner oh, so i think out with remittance if it is not only people living in germany who remit to family or who is transfer money to family. i am even if you're living in ghana and you are 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 well germans reliant states when we rely on the family rag yearly. and 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 to people. him still, but for us it's the family emma. i am the common about buy owns as a family. ah on sunday, it's time to rest. the a do say family eats unless you li breakfast together. no one ever worry. so are you all doing? when they're all together they tend to speak english. at the meal looks like a typical german breakfast or who would to me, it was

a soft or her had those either laid esl to watch a quasi fills them in on linda's progress in ghana. after she told me, she has started the atlanta, missoula, rob jerry, should've been able to beat her to both 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. this volved machine 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 gonna i was always sad and i'd say to my parents when she coming here, talk on windows, use my have a good relationship with my other sister to choir up, but i think i'm closest with linda, lice, mazda as often you are like the other one is already married and has her own

children as well. she's grown up diapers with the younger sister. it's more like we're buddies from work. we ask nathan whether he might have preferred to had some of the money. his parents had sent to lender over the years coming. line exquisite miss susan, honestly know disposal. i know why they sent it to us since lycos of i have enough things here in the home you. i wish to look certain and there are fewer opportunities there. also my mil vinegar here, i have more options, open to me maps. you'd often wondered as a good reason to send the money there once i go see beside the hand shaking real who does is of but that is already with miss mary out. it. our hope is that now we won't have to keep sending something each month to support her. that says 0 yet. so she envy shall become independent with album ish. what in and she won't expect us to keep helping out every month when does to some got it. oh to now it is a ok. i mean, electron films that will make everything easier, knowing there's

a bright future ahead in the me who the super, as we were hoping for the best, who from data on this good, good, loved, oh, linda and her family. i just one example of the millions of migrants 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 wife. 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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