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Sister Chiara's tale: 'We are just like a family here'

Sister Chiara is a Franciscan nun. From her convent in the Sicilian town of Caltagirone she busies herself, bare-footed, helping those in need, including migrant women and their babies off the streets of Sicily.

Julian's tale: Child labor and exploitation in Sicily's greenhouses

Julian started working in greenhouses in southern Sicily at the age of 14. He tells InfoMigrants how the 'Proxima' social cooperative helped him to escape the cycle of labor exploitation.

Blessing's tale: 'I hope the future will be brighter for me'

Blessing is originally from Nigeria. She arrived in Italy four years ago and was identified as having been a victim of human trafficking. She came to the social cooperative Proxima through a similar social project in Palermo. Now she's planning to move out of Proxima to live independently.

'I can't imagine the future' – Ajabana, 'exhausted' after nine months of detention in Libya

Ajabana* was arrested last January while demonstrating outside an administrative center of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Libyan capital. Since then, he has been locked up in the notorious Ain Zara prison. He described the nightmarish experience to InfoMigrants.

Lampedusa, the stories of migrants who survived shipwrecks

Survivors of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean told their stories during a meeting with European students at a recent event on Lampedusa to commemorate two deadly shipwrecks in 2013 in which some 390 migrants died.