Returning from asylum, history to the Albanian family dreaming of returning to Germany

Asya and Naisa are sisters and students at the 9-year school “Misto Mame” in the capital. Asya is in ninth grade, and Naisa is in sixth grade. In the summer of 2015, your parents told you that they would go to Germany for a better future.

There are moments we don't want to remember to be honest, but we were very upset. When we went to the camp, we felt the way we were, strangers”, say the two sisters.

The two girls also have a brother and a older sister. The six - member family drove to Germany, traveling about 40 hours to various countries.

We got many new friends there, and the teacher staff was very hospitable. We still have contacts with the society we created there”, says the girls.
The girls' father, Genc, a former police officer, reports that in 2015 he was laid off.

We've spent almost two months in the dagger that was a very difficult part, as we had to share the small space with people we didn't know, from different countries in the world”, Genc said.

Two months later they settled in a house from social service in Altena, near Dortmund.

The search for life gave me the strength to do any kind of work”, Genc said.

Genc did not have a trade, but he began cleaning facades of buildings, even taking a professional course. His wife, however, practiced in a nursing home. In parallel, they both learned German. Things were going well until one day, at 4 a.m., the door knocked.

It was 4 am, when the police came home and told me that you have the right to stay in Germany, and your family should leave”, Genc tells me.

But what impressed them from a foreign land?

“Education, respect for each other, warmth and their hospitality”, Asia and Naisa say.

Today Genc and his wife are both at work, and the children at schools are both dreaming of returning to land that they once touched.