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Canarian based charity, Nimba, have travelled to Guinea Conakry in Africa to show a documentary to the people there which reveals the bitter conditions of the immigrants that try to make it across the seas to the Canary Islands and, ultimately Europe.

There, they have filmed another, which will be shown in various European countries.

"In the countries where the illegal immigrants who arrive in the Canary Islands in pateras (small, rickety boats) originate, they are not aware of the crude reality and the bitter conditions of those who embark in them.", explained the charity to El Dia newspaper.

The charity have gone to Guinea Conakry to inform the population there of the real dangers and also explain the impossibility - because of European legislation - of them finding work in this situation. Receiving the news that many of the hopeful immigrants die in those boats, settled many debates between parents and children over the convenience, or not, of emigrating and, will hopefully stop some of the problem at source.

Until seeing the documentary too, many of the Africans had thought that all white people speak French and that there are plenty of jobs here in Europe.

The charity is also helping people in Guinea Conakry to make a living in their own country, by providing them jobs in sewing and craft workshops. A salary of 30 Euros a month is provided, which is a good quantity for living there, thanks to donations and subscriptions.

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