Proud To Have Made It This Far

After a journey of almost two years, Abdifatah Wasame finally managed to reach Germany in 2014. After he was assigned to the refugee accommodation in the Waldmichelbach district of Aschbach, he accepted his new situation with great commitment.

Today, he is building a new life for himself - and has been completing an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at the sanding technology company Jöst abrasives in Affolterbach since August 1. He just wanted to get away - away from war and bomb attacks, away from the hopelessness of his civil war-torn homeland of Somalia. Abdifatah Warsame is 17 years old when he sets off alone on his escape to a better life, without knowing where the road will take him. Today he is training as an industrial clerk. He has arrived!  1 Odenwälder Zeitung, Stefan Jünger, Stolz darauf, es so weit gebracht zu haben, November 2017

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