Thirst starts august 10th on d, w ah, across the capital of ghana in west africa. Linda is a young gunny woman. He dreams of starting her own business here. She wants to open a hair salon, but it wont be easy. Some of the money she needs to get going, who come from her family, who live in germany . Linda stepfather is one of the many africans who transfer money back to their home countries each month. Globally, these so called remittance payments total around 600000000000. 00. Every year, thats more than all Development Aid combined. Roman. Yeah. Awesome. When you live abroad, like we do in germany, your family back home usually doesnt leave as comfortably as you do miss all boarded with google live. Thats why its really important that we support our families back home with the formula in the how much distribution. So if you have a parental support, she thereby be at least it helps with also me, my parents, im relativism. I always see, im glad i have the luxury ah, linda lives alone in a suburb of acura. Years ago, her mother moved to germany to be with her stepfather. After studying at university, linda was unable to find the job. She gets by doing various things and through support from her parents in germany. She lives frugally because shes 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 our issue here. Yeah. 3 there. You know, software here use you read it that you are glad with your parents when everything but no government job. Yeah. Very difficult on the way to 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. My bills are home, as opposed to me with food stuff like i get my so well. Do i hey, you know, im a lady. Yeah. Does it . Im glad is, there is a 14 anyways, because in donna, theres a long tradition of sending money home from abroad. I was say it was off. Ill close. I i yeah. Here. Its like, oh, if you not less a you to have a eggs, all a appearance and so forth. She gets a real feeds in. Yes. So if a law thing here, i dont know ill be by here and ill mark and most other families id love to support each other. Thats our been fools if theyve been off work on things like money in standards, linda isnt poor, but she still needs to manage her money. Well, i will give them shopping at the market. Requires some haggling. There are no fixed prices here. Linda cant afford her own car. She takes the boss and said, thats sometimes been a pain during the pandemic, but its the only option. And with a cruise, 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 are good yet. But if you have that opportunity bay fabica, that is great. When is in classes you you my by with my friend is built into our ca. He says she said that there s e c building. She says she wants to get on and off the brochure thought the head wouldnt. Yeah. That that would go to us before they leave me a gun. I went to the same school to see i love nothing to show a few 1000 kilometers away in the germans city of mannheim. Its Early Morning and linda stepfather is on his way to work. A quasi, i do say, came to germany as a student almost 30 years ago. Hes lived in mannheim ever since, for many gannons, immigrating is part of life. Not the most vasa. Busy i was one of 8 childrens. The 4 older sister stayed and gone, and the boys all moved abroad after his wrist and the madman, ali and ghana on via the brothers overseas all support the family buddha in all. Weve been doing that ever since we started living here in germany. Lucky besides you here in little on fallen, were definitely on not just his own children. Other relatives also ask a quasi for money. Dr. Uncle alan, aunt and uncle, and the whole family as we helped them to log on. Gonna people and gonna always expect that when someone comes from abroad or lives abroad or does that, theyll support the rest of the family. Good reads before really on. Thats what we do. So as those wells across he lives on the outskirts of mannheim with his wife and lindas half brother. He has a job with the u. S. Army. He finds to pay ok, but even so, there isnt 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. Under that. It is where it goes on is not on his cell. And via she goes, will know how to do her fred, she wanted to do, lynn, did this, the bridge briggs then bit and we lost and way up to leah. Gov. She had a very dreadful grip. Woodrow are found on. Wow. Lindo bring half of the money you before to put it, you can just supportive to half of it. Then when to put the started in, reduce will bring another 50 percent to to liquid. Oh, how did you go . Lindas 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 in court. Not all of us can come here. So when you i hear and you support someone home, they did do something, you can find some to for yourself. I think is very good idea that not everybody will, because a rope is mostly everybody. A lot of me, i know why im seeing that. So for me, i think is a good idea. They called their daughter in accra. Linda, good one. Hi. How you doing . Im fine, im doing good, for example, in their business will cost you lexi us, he told linda 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 are funded euros, for example, then i this is it as your father was a support you the other 50 percent, which is the for 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 ill be always be a monday. Yes. Yes. As a so back not lose. Thats how things are done back holiday. So so, so long as long as the children still need support from the parents with the parents do it to be out in the smoking, gemini, state Development Agency, g, i said, has been implementing the weedy project for the past 2 years. The project director vol. Fransen, so the strategy is as simple as it is successful. Buford, on their ownership, we support all sorts of different projects. Is that the small and micro levels of business, and if you fall down the skype phone and everything from a small hair dressing business to a car mechanic at your small i t start up regarding somebody taking their 1st steps as an independent programmer, im yolanda we support, lots of different sectors. Her canceled her. She didnt like 20 before. And you know, linda is successful. Would you get an acura for a hair cut to preserve gas might of unify. Id love to do that. In fact, before covered when i was make my business trips, i often got a haircut on the spur of the moment tunnel. My son was it, id love to do it and gone to hanna zagan authentic. Get to know the entrepreneur personally. It can lam 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 their local African Grocery store. In la didnt the store owner joanna i re, has been in germany around 2 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 a bit blunt any from south america . Oh yeah. No. My lead of her baby thought by that they know my have my fingers. Well, i love it. Okay. One, you know im, im 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 made you to because i was the face fed daughter for my mother fez. 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 ive called my brother how are you what i do. But we dont talk about selling money because they are old. They are not young family. Thank you very much. All good. 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, its a, its pain. Sometimes you feel its that hell miss them all you wish to be with them together about what can i do . I mean i for begin it. It was for hard for me a by now were miss there. Mia . When we go home, we feel out on those, i recall and visit a lot of that before acts me august. Now when are you going back to gun a month or warburg to gonna but ill come back here is my 2nd hall. Meanwhile, christianity daughters of building their future in gonna a few weeks later we had to i crap, our taxi driver gideon has an uncle in germany. It seems p d on isnt as lucky as linda when it comes to getting financial help from relatives. And that is supporting his family. Im gonna, im gonna no, no jose that drew garzo leads me small for me. Wire friendly keys. But when we need something to ask him, is us saying stories, 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 could now start planning her hair salon business. Its an exciting time for the entrepreneur to be those different because and i was like, im building something for myself. Oh. So when main that told me about it and all it was like a good, a great opportunity for me to just ask something for my own. So im happy to become a businesswoman. Here. Be happy to become my own both the know yay the next day in the sets off full of motivation and with a new hairstyle to theres a lot, she wants to learn in the next few months. So far, shes 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. Hair pieces and extensions have a Central Place in gunny and fashion. Lindas friend gladys has been running a hair salon for years. Shes showing linda the basics. Me at any rate because like todays my phase day and then how are you okay. Yeah, sounds good. Thank you for that. You probably can change and take okay. Just make sure its okay. My one has a teach me how shes back at home. I just, i feel like means a home before she go to shop. So i want her to show me how she gets initially when i get to mitchell, you have to pay for the rates like 5 years. Thats what you paid 5 years. Whenever you get this book from someone, i think its, its, its, it also helps me to mean i come money when my business goof money. And now im on my feet right now and i have that kind of money. So one step at a time to start linda plans to continue selling hair ways from home. The journey to our christ Central Market takes 19 minutes. This is where the best here, extensions are sold, the selection. But the main reason linda shot is because the process is a good back in her neighborhood. She can sell the hair pieces for small markup generation or profit for her project. The yeah, everybody has the prices here because i went different shocked, but it was expensive when i came here. The prices is literally low. So thats why i buy my hair for me. And i like customer service. When you conscious smiles with you and you know shes not good for a very nice and you know, i feel someone by the next day planning for the son continues. Shes visitors 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 head is not anything else. I can see i was i was just looking at the market to know what is going what the saying. I dont put money into something that granted the lock up my money. The most important aspect of the Coaching Program as to what would be sent to finance to make sure that they are coming out of business model. That makes sense for whatever idea they have or whatever business idea running with is the model that will determine how the business functions and how we growth. While our linda has found a very good supports breakable to start from given that she is an effective when theres enough demand, substantial demand to make her actually profitable and grow the business to the extent that she can even hire people. Im glad im here to be in. Know, you fact, i really want to talk more about counsel gets no more. I wanted to give you more ideas about how to do with my business, how goods do it in house, even explain myself. When i really need more coaching, what would be interesting if we see her location . There are already a few hair salons, inland is neighborhood i love the saloon versus the coastal 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 youre selling fuel in mills, Younger Generation and theyre very more engaged online. So doing a lot more online. See feel up of course. And for the business clients you 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 youre a weekly basis check up, he sees his role as the perfect compliment to the private support. Lindas getting from her family than have an after the cow shop where you still have to pay for rent. You have the rails cost to deal with the payment from the diaspora into gonna those when it comes up very, very important and critical. I dont 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 once in hundreds of millions of years. And that comes, says us the form of the contract. Its a wonder what other panels remittance, i dont think would have had that kind of progress and development of healthy by. Thats fine 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 scraped 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, shes in a good position. Lindas, happy to get a visit from her sister. I rain there preparing a meal together. Our cargo read with our hands are the barbies a really lives outside our crop . She and her children visit linda whenever they can. I rein doesnt 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 clone. Okay, actually. Now im going to, i dont really feel that doug. I found that you feel lonely. You wish you have all your family here . No, you, richie, i think with your mom, your dad, you fancy, your brother, like my son, faith law here. She can play with the record a kiss on vacation. If they are not here, you know that a full only by a half way is in staff in how things are doing so. So it doesnt make me fuel. Think about it too much. Dana spencer. I yeah. We are human, some very poorly, so you miss your family are on bad weather. You got what can i you know, linda knows some german phrases ready in case she takes a trip to visit her parents. I low good login is infallible. To albany, l. My law a v gifts is the it we gave them with the banker. Oh ah, i oh. Okay. Own. Mm mm. Lindas dream is slowly taking shape. Its a dream that doesnt involve leaving home. Like so many other gwanae instead. Bank in mannheim. Its saturday and lindas step father doesnt 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. Work through dusty my one true one jew dustin what what, why samantha, he hosts radia shy for canadians living in germany and he says over his, well this is very, very important to him, 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 whats going on in their home country, wellington bus in your how my boss at the sending me we broadcast an english and also and guardian languages. Very important element. First in was that people understand whats going on here in germany. When we explain everything and those languages. Clara. Ha, ha, i wonder. Mm hm. The topic today is all about remittances payments from the diaspora to gone out with what they know you, boa says some c ologist who has lived in germany for a long time. How useful is this ideal from windows is where we group were living in gen manual 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 was transfer money to family. I am even if youre living in ghana and youre working in the north, are you awaken in the kumasi . So depending on where you are living, its a whole Family Structure or social support for to me that we have in please. Dorothy as well. Germans reliant states while we rely on the family. Vague geared on english because in ghana the government cant do much for us. Martin, the in germany, if you dont have a job, you go to the Unemployment Office kind drop. If youre sick, theres Health Insurance and social programs, frank and frank and for the shuttle at without. Theres always something in the system that benefits to people. Him still, but for us its the family emma. I am the common about by owns as a family ah. On sunday its time to rest. The a do say family eats unless you li breakfast together with warner worry. So are you all doing . When theyre all together they tend to speak english. At the meal looks like a typical german breakfast or who would me more than a 100 you would soft or her hand delivered the night before a quasi fills them in on lindas progress in ghana to go over, she went to jordan, just started at lennon, missoula, rob gary sheldon would be her own boss herself in tears. Nathan has never lived with his step sisters. His own. He met her on short visits to gonna but the 2 still have a close relationship. This is was mission can thats almost it was a childhood dream for me that shed come here and shes my sister and he used to get sad that she wasnt here so much be mentioned gone over the guns and version after we would visit ghana. I was always sad and id say to my parents, when is she coming here . Talk on lindas. Yes, i have a Good Relationship with my other sister to those 5 up, but i think im closest with linda lice, mazda of elk linelle. What about the other one is already married and has her own children us would you . Shes grown up with you. Been with the younger sister . Its more like what buddies come on. We asked nathan whether he might have preferred to had some of the money. His parents had sent to lender over the years coming line exquisite nor slauson honestly. Now, as far as i know, where they send it to us since lycos hope i have enough things here, and i hope you, i wished an exhaustion and are fewer opportunities there. Also my mil vinegar here i have more options open to me, minutes. Youll often wonders as a good reason to send them money. Theyre gone, so i go see beside the hen shayton real. Who does miss of but that is already with miss mary. How it, our hope is that now we wont have to keep sending something each month to support her as those is delivered yet. So she and we shall become independent at all commission of what and, and she wont expect us to keep helping out every month. Little does to some got oh to now it is a ok. I mean, electrical films that will make everything easier knowing theres a Bright Future ahead image he just took and as we were hoping for the best, who does or alice good. Good. Loved her. Oh, linda and her family. I just one example of the millions of migrants supporting their loved ones back home like these a family size that span the good guy 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 ah, im just kinda, i want, thats hard. And in the end these are me. You are not a lot us to you anymore. We will send you back. Are you familiar with this . With the smugglers were lions beef. Whats your story . I mean wasnt i was women, especially and victims of violence and i love them. Take part and send us your story. We are trying always to understand this new culture. 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