Lili left Eritrea two years ago, crossing deserts and seas alone and in the hands of smugglers, on her traumatic journey to reach Europe. She spent eight months sleeping on the streets of Rome before continuing her journey to France, where our team found her, highly vulnerable and hardly eating, sleeping in a makeshift camp in Calais, trying to find a way to reach her brother in the UK.

“I did not know there was a legal way”, Lili said of meeting Safe Passage. In September, she was finally reunited with her brother, after waiting over a year and a half in France as a result of severe delays in the processing of her case. During the whole process, her brother was a star, supporting his sister as much as he could at the same time as finishing his last year of study. Lili is one of the bravest young girls we have ever supported and told us that she wants to become a computer engineer, and we have no doubt that she will succeed in anything that she tries. We will now be working with the siblings to ensure they have the support they need to start their new lives together.