[gpick24]

Heard a little bit about this on the radio today, bad reception so didn`t hear it all. Basically, this happens all the time. Villages select the most likely to make the trip and prosper hoping they will send money back, everyone gives money to pay for the trip, not realising the hardship involved. Thousands of miles including crossing the Sahara with little water(which is littered with the bodies of those who don`t make it) then crossing the Med. Dead bodies are washed ashore all the time on the coasts of italy.
A generalisation of the report I heard today, and OK, we have our own problems here and can`t save the world, but still a sad story for those involved.