are twenty and always go together. They are the last of a group of 54 four years ago were erected into a symbol of a struggle, a bid to get something as basic as hope, a opportunity to forge a brighter future than the meager past that they left in their home country and the uncertain present now living in Ceuta.
mates are already in Madrid, trying to model this newfound freedom. They have to wait. It is assumed that soon would be able to go to the mainland. It is because, they say, they were promised, after four years living in a legal and bureaucratic limbo, caught in a cycle which can not escape. For the last 20 Indians of the mountain are well known in Ceuta. They are known in the Hindu temple, where they participate in all activities and prayers are known in the commercial areas where they work; and are known in the church, where he also collaborate. They are something like 'property' of Ceuta, or at least those who know them understand this. Behind those 20 people there are stories, there are men who left their families, their land to the economic hardships ... Today we have put them a name and a face.
Ram Babu: It was in 2005 in Punjab, land, and here he has managed to learn a trade
is 23 years and almost four of them happened in Ceuta. In their homeland, Punjab, left his parents and three siblings. There was no work for all and economic needs was enough. The grocery store run by his father did not guarantee keep the whole family, so Babu Ram had to leave India. Embarked on a clandestine journey complicated and not without risk. Even witnessed the death of several colleagues in his first attempt to reach Ceuta. He still remembers that night in which it decided to take its place in a small boat that offered shortly naufragaría from Moroccan waters. "The boat turned around and killed five of the immigrants who journeyed with me. We spent two hours in the water until they came after us, "says Babu. That was his first trip in a complicated way that ended in Ceuta months after entering the city hidden in a vehicle. He left behind his native Punjab y su paso por otros puntos: Mali, Burkina Fasso, Argelia.
Babu tiene estudios, completó Secundaria en la India y Ceuta le ha dado además del cariño de su gente y de buenas amistades, la posibilidad de aprender un oficio. Lleva ya meses trabajando en una tienda y si fuera a la península se vería capacitado para poder desarrollar sin problemas cualquier trabajo en una ferretería. Aprende fácil y eso le ha servido para formarse. Babu lleva seis años sin saber de su familia. Las escasas noticias que le llegan se resumen en dos palabras: problemas económicos. Su familia pensó que con la marcha de Babu a Europa sus problemas empezarías a solucionarse. No sólo marchaba el hijo, se marchaba la esperanza de salir adelante. The fruit shop and did not allow for much less in an area as poor as that of Punjab, north India and place of origin of most of the Indians who had reached Ceuta in recent years. Babu Ram is one of 20 of these young immigrants and perhaps one of the least known. Dreams of having a life ahead, a future, to achieve that improvement with dreams of his family.
now waiting on the CETI after spending almost a thousand days in the bush. While waiting for his story, a testimony that everybody knows.
Bhupinder Singh: You know agriculture and their land became even a taxi driver. Bhupinder
want to work and spend 37 years and takes just over six without knowing nothing of his wife and two children and must have completed six to eight years. While in Ceuta learned that his mother had died. When he left he was thinking Punjab will soon get a job to help all his relatives, among them that gave him life. Farming was not for long and although Bhupinder learned his father's trade, economic hardship drove him to leave his home in 2005. His family had to sell the land, had to finance the departure of the eldest son. It was like an investment, but it went wrong. Bhupinder has blocked more than six years, including four trapped in a limbo of papers, laws, contradictions and unfulfilled promises. Not know what Agriculture is written on their land even work as a taxi driver. If Bhupinder get a job, it could help your family, give them a future. While waiting, parking exercises in port. And doing it well. Behind is its history, its clandestine journey marked by two deportations to the border with Algeria, Oujda feared. Survived the continued abuse of some gangs that do not understand more than money.
Sunny Singh: The specialist: a bricklayer until
low agricultural expert masonry, is what is known as the pavement because that's what was on their land. Sunny is strong and that has helped him move forward, not to collapse when, in Ceuta, we reported that his father had died. It was like the 'cure' of the people, the spiritual guide. When Sunny went to Punjab in 2006 left him at home with his mother, a brother and sister. Are going to find a job, a way out, a way to earn money. And so began a difficult journey. We played pass two deportations. That's not forget: you stop, you're expelled from the Algerian border, you encounter hundreds of stranded migrants and lack of scruples of the mafia ... Sunny knows what it is like to difficulties. He has been nearly four years in Ceuta, awaiting the same fate as his other colleagues have had the mount, which are already on the peninsula. They promised to leave gradually and believed that promise.
now patiently waiting in the CETI, trying to stay well physically and mentally. It is the only way to keep hope alive. It has a specialty to their backs, you might serve to help in the workplace integration that can wait.
Raj Kumar, an electrician in India, here is a parking
Raj is 28 years and now serves as parking. Surely someday will have served as effective contributor to more than one driver in leaving the vehicle correctly positioned. That's their job, at least in Ceuta. He left behind the other, the electrician. It's what he could do in India their country. A land that has not seen that in 2006 he quit his job and his relatives. He did it because there was no money, because the famine pressed too much and because someone in your family had to leave Punjab and try. That is the goal of Raj, try, get a job, earn some money, at least to let their mother, father or brother do not pass it so bad. They have left all helped to make Raj arrived in Europe. But he stayed in Ceuta, trapped in a limbo impossible, in a vicious circle that can not get out: you can not hire, no registration is allowed, does not have a solution ... you just need endure, to spend this time and hope that finally, after nearly Ceuta four years, his life turns around and becomes light.
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