[ti:A Senegalese Migrant's Path from Boat to Nurse in Spain]
[by:www.21voa.com]
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[00:00.04]Six migrants listen closely as Mbaye Babacar Diouf speaks to them.
[00:09.36]The 33-year-old man has faced his own difficulties as a migrant from Senegal to Spain.
[00:18.72]Today, Babacar is a nurse in the Spanish city of Bilbao.
[00:24.88]He also runs a nonprofit organization
[00:28.92]that helps migrants in Bilbao as well as young people back in Senegal.
[00:36.04]But Babacar tells the men, who have arrived from Senegal,
[00:41.56]Ghana and Morocco, that he is no role model.
[00:47.76]Behind the appearance of success, he faces struggles.
[00:53.56]His difficulties come from years of mistreatment and abuse
[00:58.60]while trying to repay his debts to human traffickers.
[01:04.12]"I wish every one of you achieves your life goals,
[01:07.88]but I don't desire for anybody the complicated
[01:12.24]and tough journey that I went through," Babacar tells the group.
[01:17.84]He recognizes that such a message might seem unusual.
[01:22.08]After all, he has built a career in Spain that lets him
[01:26.92]fly home to Dakar to visit family.
[01:30.64]He earns enough money to send his family money throughout the year.
[01:36.92]He spoke to the group of migrants just before going to work
[01:40.96]at Bilbao's Basurto University Hospital.
[01:45.36]In recent months, he has been treating patients
[01:49.44]suffering from the effects of COVID-19.
[01:53.64]Dealing with the coronavirus crisis has been emotional and difficult for Babacar.
[02:00.28]"I've seen people die at sea, but this is different," he says.
[02:06.16]"I love my job, but there have been situations that have churned my stomach."
[02:13.44]Before Babacar called Bilbao his home,
[02:17.28]there were long nights sleeping in the open
[02:20.16]and selling street goods for migrant traffickers.
[02:24.88]Back then, his dream of becoming a nurse seemed impossible.
[02:31.12]He was 15 years old when he decided he wanted to go into the medical field.
[02:38.12]The year was 2003.
[02:40.96]Babacar had just gotten to the Canary Islands
[02:45.32]after a difficult and dangerous 10-day boat trip.
[02:50.12]He arrived hungry and extremely thirsty.
[02:55.12]But Red Cross volunteers provided immediate aid
[02:59.32]to the teenager and the 137 other migrant passengers.
[03:06.28]"That instant, I promised myself that one day I would be a nurse," Babacar said.
[03:13.52]At the time, the Atlantic Ocean path of migration to Europe
[03:18.20]was seeing a huge rise in such crossings.
[03:22.32]Babacar still remembers the many bodies he saw floating in the water
[03:27.28]on his group's seventh day at sea.
[03:31.48]"That's when you realize that there is no way back," he said.
[03:35.92]"Either you make it or you die."
[03:39.84]Now, the boats are again leaving in high numbers.
[03:43.96]And human-trafficking operations continue to find migrants to victimize.
[03:50.16]The criminal groups force newly arrived migrants
[03:54.28]to pay high prices for a place to sleep.
[03:57.56]They also overcharge them
[04:00.08]for securing health care documents and low-earning illegal jobs.
[04:05.16]Some migrants never escape their debts.
[04:09.92]In Babacar's case, life changed for the better
[04:14.20]the day he met Spaniard Juan Gil.
[04:18.52]Today, he calls Gil "Aita," which means "father" in the Basque language of Spain.
[04:25.32]The man had employed Babacar to do some repair work in his home.
[04:30.80]They grew fond of one another quickly.
[04:34.84]Soon, the young worker was eating every meal at Gil's home.
[04:39.56]The man's mother had recently died, and his daughter had just moved away.
[04:45.64]So, Gil invited Babacar to move in with him.
[04:50.52]Babacar accepted, leaving the small, costly home
[04:55.00]he shared with 15 other men.
[04:58.48]"I told my daughter Mbaye was lucky.
[05:01.48]But she told me we had been the lucky ones with him," said Gil,
[05:06.84]a 74-year-old artist and retired art teacher.
[05:11.96]"And she was absolutely right."
[05:15.72]When Babacar was 28, Gil became his father
[05:20.16]through the legal action called adoption.
[05:23.84]Babacar was able to pay back his remaining debt,
[05:27.36]send more money to family and begin nursing school.
[05:32.08]After finishing school,
[05:34.24]he found a job with the Basque area public health service.
[05:39.80]Babacar quickly turned his attention to his next goal:
[05:43.72]completing medical school and returning to Senegal.
[05:49.12]There, he hopes to work as a doctor for "Sunu Gaal,"
[05:53.60]the non-governmental organization he established.
[05:57.92]The name means "Our Fishing Boat" in Senegal's Wolof language.
[06:04.16]The organization works to help migrants living in Bilbao
[06:08.16]as well as young people back in Senegal,
[06:11.00]where it is trying to build a school.
[06:14.96]"The idea is not to tell them to migrate or to stay put,"
[06:19.24]Babacar said of his organization's work.
[06:22.68]"The goal is to infuse them with critical thinking
[06:26.16]to make informed decisions and not to fall prey to the mafias."
[06:32.32]I'm Ashley Thompson. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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