Meet Jamilu
Jamilu (Gambia) n Naples, Italy. 30 November 2017. ©Pamela Kerpius/Migrants of the Mediterranean
by:
Pamela Kerpius
Recorded:
30 November 2017
Published:
December 2017
Revised:
1/12/25
Meet Jamilu.
17 years old and from Gambia.
To reach Italy he crossed six countries: The Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and the most dangerous of all, Libya.
His journey took about three months. He crossed the Mediterranean Sea and landed in Catania, Sicily on 25 June 2015. He was transferred directly to Naples to the state housing where he still resides, now 20, and where we recorded this part of his story on 30 November 2017.
Jamilu is an amazing human being.