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Stories of survivors

SOS MEDITERRANEE has rescued more than 42,700 people since 2016. 

From an eight-year-old who walked alone from Mali to a Lebanese family with three young children, these are the stories of those rescued. Their harrowing and heartbreaking tales shed a light on the dire humanitarian situation in the Mediterranean.  

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Testimony

Isam

It was the violence by the Rapid Support Forces in Darfur that led him to leave. The women of his community were subjected to sexual violence, and the men are enrolled by force or tortured.
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Selam

Selam, 18, and his best friend traveled through Sudan and Libya over the course of a year, before being imprisoned in Tripoli and subjected to violence.
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Ville Maali / SOS MEDITERRANEE

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Ayman

"If people did not manage to get enough money by calling their family, the Libyan jailers took their organs to sell them and left them to die."
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Ville Maali / SOS MEDITERRANEE

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Rajan

Rajan is a Hindu farmer from Bangladesh. He describes a long history of persecution of Hindu families. He feared for his own life.
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Testimony

Marcus

Marcus* spent 2 nights on a rubber boat, and 4 nights on the Miskar offshore platform, in the overlapping Tunisian and Maltese Search and Rescue region.
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Hamid

“I became a soldier at 17 years old. If you are a soldier, there is no salary. You will not be able to help your family. “

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