All alone but full of hope: Lampedusa migrant stories
Lampedusa (Italy) (AFP) - "No mama, no papa. All alone."
Eleven-year-old Tanjin knows just enough English to sum up his situation in heart-wrenching fashion.
But the Eritrean boy kicking a dirty white football around with other asylum seekers on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is anything but miserable.
In fact, he rarely stops smiling and laughing.
Whatever horrors lie behind him, Tanjin's future - and perhaps that of the family he left behind in east Africa - looks brighter now he has made it to European soil. ...
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