Description
The children on the boat: Maimoun and Shujun were on their long journey across the sea. They began their journey in their first homeland and travelled to a second homeland, to an uncertain future, far away from war and suffering. Maimoun begins to tell his story. “My name is Maimoun, I am a boy and I am ten years old. Circumstances forced me to leave the country where I was born and grew up. I left one day like so many other children of the war. We had many hardships and our journey was long. And now we are here on the deck of the boat and in the middle of the sea, travelling to an uncertain future, to a second home. I met many children on the boat. From their faces I could read the fear of the horrors they had suffered. One of the children on the boat was Shujun, who was younger than me. On board the boat, I played with her intimately and during the game we forgot about the rough sea. Shujun sat there and I sat here. Like all the other children on the boat, we sat there silent and frozen. Our most important concern was the question of when and where the boat would dock? Would we reach the shore that was safe for us? And then we finally arrived, exhausted and tired.”
