Back home for good: but what is next?
The possibility of being thrown out in to the sea to prevent the small boat sinking, the possibility of suffocating to death traveling on board a shipping container loaded on track, or the possibility of crossing a dry desert on foot without enough water to drink are among some of the worst conditions that a human being can go through. Sadly, they are very real possibilities for a young man of 20 and his fellow travelers to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He witnessed people dying from dehydration, and silently watched people being beaten up to death; he knows the true meaning of thirst and hunger; he understands what a near- death experience is all about; and he did all this in the longest 30 days of his life while traveling to Saudi Arabia from his birthplace Ataye, located in Northern Shewa Zone of the Amhara Regional State. The world has its own way of breaking people’s spirit, and at a young age he witnessed those horrible things. Although the young man