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A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea (Chapter 7) - Coggle Diagram
A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea (Chapter 7)
Beginning
Bassem starts suggesting to Doaa that they should leave Egypt and go to Europe.
Doaa doesn't agree with that idea at first, she doesn't want to risk her life in a dangerous trip on the sea.
Bassem keeps insisting on that idea, trying to convince Doaa that they should do it.
Doaa realises that they can't go to other place to have a better life but Europe.
Doaa begins to considering how it would be like to live in a safer place like Europe and starts agreeing with the idea.
Bassem starts to get worried, he thinks he should go to Europe by himself and then make Doaa and her family go there too.
Doaa tells him that she's going to travel with him. She doesn't want to be left behind.
Doaa convinces her mother that she's going with Bassem.
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Information about that time
By 2014, the UNHCR would record around 60 million forcibly displaced people.
Refugees were travelling to other countries by being smuggled. People who wanted to go to Europe were supposed to pay $5,000, $2,500 being paid up front.
Smugglers were making deals with the authorities to give some of the refugees who were leaving the country illegaly up to recieve some money.
There was a war happening in a lot of Middle East countries during 2014. Extremist groups were gaining power and people were fighting those groups and the government of their country.
Europe wanted to help refugees, so they decided to provide shelter in the neighbour countries of the one that they were fleeing from, that's why refugees couldn't those countries.
The smuggling
Bassem and Doaa stayed in an apartment with two other families.
They had to wait for a phone call to know when and where they had to go for the trip.
When they finally recieved the call, the left the partment at 9.00 p.m.
Doaa said goodbye to her family that had gone with them to watch Doaa and Bassem go.
The other two families and they had to get into a small bus with a lot of other people.
Doaa was scared by the smugglers.
After an hour in that bus, they got off and got in the back of a large truck. They almost had no room to move there.
An hour had passed and they arrived at a barren coast.
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The final parts
Doaa and Bassem are taken to Birimibal detentio center, where they had to admit that they were trying to leave the country ilegally and answer some questions about the smuggling.
Both of them had to stay 10 days in prison.
The prisioners were interviewed by UNHCR officials and treated by medics from Doctors Without Borders.
Bassem visited Doaa everyday while they were in prison.
After they completed their time in prison, they went back to Gamasa.
After Doaa and Bassem were welcomed by her family, they decided that they should try to leave the country again.
The bus that they took got chased by the police and crashed. The smugglers and the refugees got captured and sent to prison.
In prison, Doaa got really sick and was sent to the hospital, she had to take her medicine while in prison.
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