Las Palmas, Spain ¨C Haruna Ndom, 18, set out two years ago on a dayslong journey across the Atlantic in a fragile boat with dozens of other migrants.
Now in Spain¡¯s Canary Islands, one of the main entry points into Europe for African migrants, he hopes to build a future that will allow him to support his family in Senegal.
Ndom recalled being afraid during the roughly 1,000-kilometer Atlantic crossing to the archipelago off northwest Africa, one of the world¡¯s deadliest migration routes.
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