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Thiaroye-sur-Mer, Senegal – 21 August 2024
1. Student Salamba Ndiaye walks towards beach from her family home
2. Ndiaye stands on the beach where she took a boat towards Spain, with damaged boats used to transport migrants in the background
3. SOUNDBITE (Wolof) Salamba Ndiaye, student:
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“For the time being, school is on a break, but later we will start again. If I had to go to school tomorrow, I wouldn’t even have the money to get there. I even asked my mother, should I just stop my studies and go to do something else? My dream was to build buildings, to succeed in that and make a living. That was my goal, so that I could help my mother and help myself. Right now, if they told me there was a boat going to Spain, I would leave this interview and get on it.”
4. Ndiaye walks out of her room into family compound
5. Ndiaye and family members sit while waiting for food to be prepared
6. Ndiaye holds young nephew in the courtyard
7. Various of Cheikh Gueye, a fisherman who has just returned from a failed attempt to reach the Canary Islands, sits on the beach
12. SOUNDBITE (Wolof) Cheikh Gueye, fisherman:
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“Even if we stay here, we are in danger. If you are sick and you can’t pay for treatment, aren’t you in danger? So, we take our chances. Either we get there, or we don’t.”
8. Various of damaged boats that were used to transport migrants sit on the beach
STORYLINE:
Salamba Ndiaye from Senegal has twice attempted and failed to migrate to Spain.
She has joined hundreds of others on the dangerous journey from the waters near her home to the Canary Islands.
Despite the dangers she remains undeterred.
Salamba says there is nothing for her at home.
Her family, like the rest of their community in the small town of Thiaroye-sur-mer, is mostly employed in the fishing industry.
Her brother is a fisherman, and her mother cleans and sells fish brought in from sea in the market.
Fishermen in Thiaroye say they have hardly been able to find fish since the sea has been overtaken by industrial fishing trawlers, allowed to fish in Senegalese waters after several countries made fishing agreements with the government.
These trawlers dwarf the traditional fishing boats used by fishermen here, used only to catch enough fish to sell in the local markets.
Ndiaye is 28 years old and unmarried, and has dedicated herself to helping her family.
She has been studying at a local university, and she says she’s years behind where she should be and is struggling to finish her studies.
“If I had to go to school tomorrow, I wouldn’t even have the money to get there,” she said.
Ndiaye says she is concerned for her mother, Fatou Niang, who is 63 years old and struggles each day to make enough money to support the family.
“My dream was to build buildings, to succeed in that and make a living.
That was my goal, so that I could help my mother and help myself.”
Fatou Niang originally did not support her daughter’s attempts to migrate.
She fears for her daughter’s life, she says, but understands why young people want to make the journey.
She says that about 10 years ago fishing began to dry up.
As she cleaned fish that she would sell later in the day, she lamented the lack of work for young people in Thiaroye.
“These kids don’t know anything but the sea, and now the sea has nothing,” she said.
Ndiaye made it as far as Morocco on her second attempt, but was promptly arrested and sent back to Senegal.
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