Immigrants
Birds with broken wings
 

When poverty has increased and there was a spread of tyranny corruption, injustice, ignorance and sickness especially in the countryside, which have forced many people to immigrate out of the country to escape this torture and seek their livelihoods elsewhere.
Case study
Awadallah Abdel Fattah's Family
The elder son Mohamed is a University graduate who couldn't find a job after graduation. Now he spends his days sleeping and spends his nights on the café to escape the dirty looks his family and neighbors give him because of being unemployed. He had many dreams but their all evaporated.
The government has abandoned graduates, and businessmen only employ relatives and recommended people. Mohamed is from a simple family, his father is a farmer who works for daily wages who is unable anymore to bear the costs of life and the his wife's medication. He has three brothers and one sister who is aging and no one has proposed to her because her father is unable to furnish her bridal home. The girl has barely finished prep school then her father took her out to help in the house work as he wasn't able to pay for her education anymore.
The father advised his elder son to go to Aboud who would be able to arrange for him to travel abroad offering to sell their Karat of land to pay for that, hoping that his son would find a job opportunity in a foreign country.
Aboud is a traveling contractor who arranges for youths to travel to Europe by sea. He has agreements with boat owners to smuggle these young people to other countries. The boats drop these young people on European shores and it's up to them to find their way into the country and find a job.
After selling their little piece of land and borrowing more money to pay Aboud. Two months later Aboud told that father to have Mohamed prepare himself to be traveling on Friday. The family was so happy as if they have found a treasure. The deadline was postponed four times for several reasons, then the boat has arrived. Mohamed along with 38 other young people were prepared to travel on a fishing boat that is not capable of carrying this number of people. All of these young people are full of dreams about Europe and how much money they would earn there. All of these young people are looking forward to taking their families out of the line of poverty. All of their dreams were lost at sea, as the boat they were in has sank and most of them were never found.
After the family had its share of grief over Mohamed, there was their other son Mahmoud, as the father asked Aboud to arrange for his other son to travel abroad and mortgaged his home to Aboud.
Aboud also provides rich but old businessmen from the Gulf to marry girls from such poor and simple families, for example, Aboud brought a 65 year old Saudi to marry Abu Rabie's daughter. He married her for two months and gave her family 10 thousand pounds.
Every time a disaster happens or a boat sinks, the police arrests the poor fishermen who work on these boats, but Aboud and the boat owners do not even get questioned about the issue because they know people who can protect them.
Every time someone advises Abu Mohamed not to risk the life of his other son, he replies saying that he doesn't have any other choice to get out poverty and asks for another solution.
The LCHR also asks for a solution other than imprisonment, humility and torture. We need a solution to poverty, unemployment and limited income, a solution that would guarantee their rights to freedom, personal safety, healthcare, suitable housing and decent living.
We need a solution that would enable the people to monitor and participate in the decision making process to contribute in making a better tomorrow.
We need a solution that would guarantee simple people to live in dignity in their country.

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