0:00:02 > 0:00:04Families can be driven apart for all manner of reasons.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07I had no information at all about where my mum went.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10And when you do lose touch with your loved ones...
0:00:10 > 0:00:12You don't know who you are, where you've come from.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14..finding them can take a lifetime...
0:00:14 > 0:00:18I might have a brother that's still living here.
0:00:18 > 0:00:23..especially when they could be anywhere - at home or abroad.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26And that's where the family finders come in,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28from international organisations...
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hi, it's the Salvation Army Family Tracing Service.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34..to genealogy detective agencies...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37For someone to say that it's changed their life,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40it makes coming to work really, really special.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42..and dedicated one-man bands.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46It's a matter of how much effort you really want to put into it,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48how badly you want to solve the problem.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52They hunt through history to bring families back together again.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Finding new family is wonderful.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59In this series, we follow the work of the family finders...
0:00:59 > 0:01:04Suddenly, you get one spark of breakthrough and there they are.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06..learning the tricks they use
0:01:06 > 0:01:08to track missing relatives through time...
0:01:08 > 0:01:13I didn't think I'd ever find sisters but I have.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17..and meeting the people whose lives they change along the way.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19I've been waiting to meet John my whole life.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Since we've met, I feel part of a family again.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26You've just completed my life for me.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36Families can lose touch for all sorts of reasons.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38A relative may have moved abroad,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41sometimes people just drift apart,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43but in the most extreme circumstances,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47families must make the ultimate sacrifice and split up
0:01:47 > 0:01:51because it may be the only route to a better and more secure future.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Today, we follow two such cases.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Iwan's search is for the birth mother who gave him up
0:01:58 > 0:02:02as a three-day-old baby, in order to give him
0:02:02 > 0:02:05the opportunities in life she felt she couldn't provide.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09"You may decide to tell Ewan all this yourselves one day
0:02:09 > 0:02:11"or you may give him this letter to read.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13"But, in either case, he can be assured
0:02:13 > 0:02:16"that his mother was very concerned for his future welfare."
0:02:16 > 0:02:20I couldn't just...turn away and not look at him
0:02:20 > 0:02:22and not at least have one cuddle.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26So, I did, and I fell in love with him.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30I'm going to cry now.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32And we meet Hussin who,
0:02:32 > 0:02:37after the trauma of fleeing a home being torn apart by civil war,
0:02:37 > 0:02:41left his family behind and put his own life on the line
0:02:41 > 0:02:43in search of a safer future for them all.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46I'm started crying, she started crying, my mum.
0:02:46 > 0:02:52Everybody started crying because I know this journey is very bad.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Maybe you die, maybe you lose your life, it's not very safe,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59but I have to.
0:03:01 > 0:03:0536-year-old Iwan Williams grew up in Lincoln.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07From a young age, his parents were open
0:03:07 > 0:03:09about the fact they had adopted him.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13They told us the story about how a baby comes from Mummy's tummy
0:03:13 > 0:03:15and all that sort of thing and they said, "Well, you didn't,
0:03:15 > 0:03:17"but we still love you
0:03:17 > 0:03:21"and your natural parents couldn't keep you for whatever reason."
0:03:21 > 0:03:27I, at least, have the memory of being very confused.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31There's a huge sense of, "Well, who am I?"
0:03:31 > 0:03:33that sort of lingers over you.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37It wasn't until Iwan was in his late teens
0:03:37 > 0:03:40that he learned some details about his birth family.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43His adoptive father gave him a letter
0:03:43 > 0:03:46he had been keeping for him since his adoption.
0:03:46 > 0:03:52In the letter were details about my natural mum and my natural dad
0:03:52 > 0:03:54and the circumstances around my birth.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00It says, "Dear Mr and Mrs Clark, you already know that Daniel was born
0:04:00 > 0:04:04"at the Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, and his delivery was normal.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07"Sarah, Daniel's mother, is a 15-year-old grammar school girl
0:04:07 > 0:04:10"who had home tuition during her pregnancy.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12"Sarah's family were very supportive
0:04:12 > 0:04:14"and offered to help her care for her baby,
0:04:14 > 0:04:17"but she felt she was too young to give him the security
0:04:17 > 0:04:19"and upbringing that she should wish him to have.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23"You may decide to tell Iwan all this yourselves one day
0:04:23 > 0:04:26"or you may give him this letter to read but, in either case,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28"he can be assured that his mother was very concerned
0:04:28 > 0:04:29"for his future welfare."
0:04:30 > 0:04:33I think I was dumbfounded when I first got it.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37It's like, "Oh, this is a bit of real information about ME." Um...
0:04:39 > 0:04:42But it's on paper. That's weird.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Another couple of years passed before Iwan resolved to act
0:04:47 > 0:04:50on the information he had been given about his adoption.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54I decided I wanted to find out a bit more about her
0:04:54 > 0:04:56and I looked into the process of finding out her name
0:04:56 > 0:04:58and all this sort of thing
0:04:58 > 0:05:01and I came across something called the Adoption Contact Register,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04which you pay £10 or £15 to and they tell you
0:05:04 > 0:05:09whether your natural parent or parents have put their names
0:05:09 > 0:05:12on this register so, in effect,
0:05:12 > 0:05:14giving you the permission to contact them.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16And she HAD put it on there.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Having the name of my mother given to me
0:05:19 > 0:05:23by this Adoption Contact Register goes in the face of all the...
0:05:23 > 0:05:25all of the fear that you have,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27all of the, "They didn't want me", and all the rest of it.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30It says, "Actually, get in touch if you want."
0:05:30 > 0:05:35Iwan now knew his birth mother's married name, Sarah Wroot,
0:05:35 > 0:05:37and an address.
0:05:37 > 0:05:42He had everything he needed to make contact but then, he hesitated.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45I just kept that information for years. I didn't do anything with it.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47I think it takes a lot of courage to do it.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50And I think, I think I had to grow up a bit more
0:05:50 > 0:05:53and probably get rid of a lot of the fear of,
0:05:53 > 0:05:55"Who are these people and why did they give me up?
0:05:55 > 0:05:57"Do they actually want me?"
0:05:57 > 0:06:00After going to university, Iwan eventually ended up in London
0:06:00 > 0:06:03and began a career in recruitment.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05After a few years of working in the city,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08he decided to take a break from the rat race.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11It was then, just over two years ago,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14that his thoughts turned again to his birth mother.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16After having decided that...
0:06:18 > 0:06:22..I would change the course of my life, or working life,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25I'd had a chance to have some time not working
0:06:25 > 0:06:30and it became apparent that actually finding out who I was
0:06:30 > 0:06:36was more important, at that particular time, than anything else.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Iwan's first port of call was to return to the adoption agency,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44where his birth mother had left her details several years before.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47The beginning of the search was going back to the letter
0:06:47 > 0:06:49from the Adoption Contact Register,
0:06:49 > 0:06:51getting her address from there and trying that out.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54So, after 34 years of having no contact with...
0:06:55 > 0:06:58..either of my natural parents, I'd written this card.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01I knew that the first name that I'd been given was Daniel
0:07:01 > 0:07:04and I think I wrote on the card the name that she'd given me
0:07:04 > 0:07:07and my date of birth, so then she would be under no illusions
0:07:07 > 0:07:11as to who it was and why this random card came through the post.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15After posting the card, Iwan heard nothing back.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18And I think it was maybe three weeks, a month later,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20I thought if there was going to be anything,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23it would have been by now and then I had the thought,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25"Hold on, that address was really, really old.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29"How do I go about finding out more about this?"
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Realising the address he got from the Adoption Register
0:07:33 > 0:07:35could now be years out of date,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Iwan's next step was to ask his local council for help.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41So, I approached Tower Hamlets Council,
0:07:41 > 0:07:44where I was living at the time and they said,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47"Yes, you can apply for a thing called a birth record."
0:07:47 > 0:07:50They gave me this, which is an adoption case sheet,
0:07:50 > 0:07:56which is enormous and has all sorts of details about who she was
0:07:56 > 0:07:58and how old she was and where she lived.
0:07:58 > 0:08:04Lots of health stuff, where her doctor was and how healthy she was.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I was getting a picture of her through this
0:08:06 > 0:08:09and through the original letter I got
0:08:09 > 0:08:11when I was 16 or 17, or however old I was.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15And I think, when I had this, when I got this adoption record,
0:08:15 > 0:08:19that was when it solidified in my mind, without any doubt then,
0:08:19 > 0:08:21after I had all of this, it was,
0:08:21 > 0:08:24"Right, I'm definitely going to find her."
0:08:24 > 0:08:26With every new piece of information,
0:08:26 > 0:08:30Iwan was building up a better picture of his birth mother
0:08:30 > 0:08:33but he was still no closer to finding her.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37It wasn't until he met an amateur genealogist online
0:08:37 > 0:08:40that it looked like his search might finally come to fruition.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45It was only a few days after meeting Iwan
0:08:45 > 0:08:49and I said to him, "Do you want to call me Mum?"
0:08:50 > 0:08:52And he did straightaway.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Not every quest to reunite a family
0:08:59 > 0:09:02starts with a search through the records.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Hussin Zahra knew exactly where his loved ones were,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09but had to overcome barriers separating them
0:09:09 > 0:09:12which were both physical and political.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Just five years ago, Hussin and his family
0:09:15 > 0:09:17lived comfortably in the Middle East.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20I grew up in Syria.
0:09:20 > 0:09:27It's very nice place and everybody has own house and own business.
0:09:28 > 0:09:32And I tell you, is very nice city
0:09:32 > 0:09:37and the summer, you can get all the fruits there, you know.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41Everything is ready there and everything you can get it easily,
0:09:41 > 0:09:44because the land is very good.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48I married my wife 19 years ago
0:09:48 > 0:09:51and I bring the children
0:09:51 > 0:09:55and I have six children - four girls and two boys.
0:09:56 > 0:10:03And I start also to build my work there, in a shop,
0:10:03 > 0:10:06a big shop in appliances for houses.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And the business is very good.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15But, in 2011, war broke out in Syria,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18when a democracy demonstration ended in violence,
0:10:18 > 0:10:20which spiralled into civil unrest.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23EXPLOSION
0:10:23 > 0:10:27Life in Syria became unbearable for much of the civilian population,
0:10:27 > 0:10:30many of whom started to leave the country to seek safety,
0:10:30 > 0:10:34crossing the borders of Syria into the neighbouring nations
0:10:34 > 0:10:37of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41More than 4.5 million people have fled Syria
0:10:41 > 0:10:43since the start of the conflict,
0:10:43 > 0:10:47making it one of the largest refugee movements in recent history.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Hussin made the difficult decision
0:10:49 > 0:10:52that his family should leave their home in Syria
0:10:52 > 0:10:55and seek a new life in another country.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Too much guns and too much bombs and stuff.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Very dangerous and I cannot leave and they starve, my children,
0:11:01 > 0:11:03so I take the decision
0:11:03 > 0:11:06everybody have to go from my country straightaway.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I leave everything.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Just one day, I tell them, "You have to be ready tomorrow.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16"We'll start to go because, you know,
0:11:16 > 0:11:19"there's no guarantee in the next day what happens."
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Actually, it's very hard to leave your house
0:11:23 > 0:11:28and you leave the business and you leave your farm and everything
0:11:28 > 0:11:31because all my life, I build all these things,
0:11:31 > 0:11:35so just one day, I lose everything.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38It's very hard for me to leave everything but I have to
0:11:38 > 0:11:42because I need to save our lives, I have to save my children's lives.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44It's not very easy.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Together, Hussin and his family made it
0:11:48 > 0:11:51as far as the relative safety of Egypt
0:11:51 > 0:11:54but they decided there wasn't a future for them there either.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57So, I tell my wife I have to go from this country
0:11:57 > 0:11:59to look for another country.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04Hussin made the heart-wrenching decision to leave his wife, Sana,
0:12:04 > 0:12:08his four daughters and a baby son alone in Egypt.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Hussin planned to make the dangerous 2,000-mile journey
0:12:11 > 0:12:15to the UK, in the hope of finding asylum
0:12:15 > 0:12:17and safety for the whole family.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18But he wasn't going alone.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21He was taking his nine-year-old son, Mohammed,
0:12:21 > 0:12:24and his ten-year-old nephew, Ali, with him.
0:12:24 > 0:12:29I decided with my wife to go from Egypt to England
0:12:29 > 0:12:32but when I need to go to England, it's long way.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Everybody crying, you know.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Of course, it's not like this, you know, to go.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41I'm started crying, she started crying, my mum,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43everybody started crying,
0:12:43 > 0:12:48because it's no guarantee to see us again.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Maybe I lose my life in the sea.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55Maybe I lose it for another way, I don't know. So, it's...
0:12:55 > 0:13:03When you start to go, the decision is very, very difficult, you know.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Hussin paid to make the perilous passage
0:13:06 > 0:13:08across the Mediterranean Sea,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11a journey that had already claimed the lives
0:13:11 > 0:13:13of hundreds of other refugees.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18I know this journey is very bad. Maybe die, maybe you lose your life.
0:13:18 > 0:13:25It's not very safe, but I have to, so I go in the ship.
0:13:27 > 0:13:32I stay in the sea around 12 days, but in these 12 days,
0:13:32 > 0:13:38I cannot forget ever in my life, because it's very, very, very hard.
0:13:38 > 0:13:43The journey was long and frightening and, after four days,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45the passengers ran out of food and water.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49The people there, they lied to us.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54They tell us, "There is food, there is drink, don't worry.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58"Just three or four days the trip, and very safe."
0:13:58 > 0:14:03They lied to us and we stay in this trip 12 days.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Four days in this twelve days, four days,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09they don't know where we'll be going, you know.
0:14:09 > 0:14:15They lost in the sea and they finish the water and they finish the food.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19I take some food with me, I take some water with me,
0:14:19 > 0:14:25but all is finished and, you know, I try to save the water and food
0:14:25 > 0:14:30for my son and for my nephew, but, you know, it's finished.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36After 12 harrowing days at sea, the boat landed in Italy
0:14:36 > 0:14:39and from there, they travelled over 1,500 miles to Calais.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43After paying for one night in a hotel,
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Hussin's money had finally run out and they were forced to join
0:14:47 > 0:14:51the hundreds of other refugees living in makeshift camps.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56And Calais, also, we stay 15 days there,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58but it's my money finished there,
0:14:58 > 0:15:03and all the people, like refugees, they need help.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08I feel very, very difficult. I know it's very hard for me and for them.
0:15:08 > 0:15:13Hussin, his nine-year-old son and his nephew were stranded,
0:15:13 > 0:15:14sleeping rough in Calais.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18It had been over a month since he had left his family in Egypt.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22He couldn't legally get to Britain and he couldn't go back to Syria.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27Life is very difficult there and I cannot manage to leave there.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31Hussin had risked everything to make it to the UK
0:15:31 > 0:15:33to give his family a better future,
0:15:33 > 0:15:37but now it looked like his gamble had fallen short,
0:15:37 > 0:15:39just in sight of the shores he was seeking.
0:15:43 > 0:15:4836-year-old Iwan was looking for the birth mother
0:15:48 > 0:15:51who had given him up as a baby so he could have a better future.
0:15:51 > 0:15:57For anybody, the desire to meet a natural parent is just inherent.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00But Iwan's search had hit a dead end.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02He turned to the internet for help.
0:16:02 > 0:16:08And came across a group, run by some amateur genealogists,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11and one of the people in the group told me
0:16:11 > 0:16:16that because my mother's first married name was so unusual -
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Sarah J Wroot, which has that unusual spelling
0:16:19 > 0:16:21with the W on the front of it -
0:16:21 > 0:16:24that it was very easy for her to be found.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27In fact, it took just a few hours
0:16:27 > 0:16:30for the internet genealogist to find a match,
0:16:30 > 0:16:35but with another chance to meet his birth mother, Iwan hesitated again.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37He asked the genealogist for advice.
0:16:37 > 0:16:42As soon as she told me, she asked me, "What are you going to do?"
0:16:42 > 0:16:45And I said...
0:16:46 > 0:16:50I think, in the message box, I wrote, "Argh, I don't know!
0:16:50 > 0:16:54"What SHOULD I do?" And she said, "Well, you could write a letter."
0:16:54 > 0:16:58I said, "No, YOU write it." And...
0:16:58 > 0:17:01I was all nerves then. I think I was...
0:17:01 > 0:17:04I think I remember writing that and physically shaking,
0:17:04 > 0:17:06being so nervous.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09And she said, "OK, I'll write a letter for you."
0:17:10 > 0:17:14The amateur genealogist wrote to Iwan's mother, Sarah,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17and awaited a response. The wait wasn't a long one.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20A couple of days later,
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Iwan and Sarah were speaking on the phone for the very first time.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27My world just exploded.
0:17:27 > 0:17:33I was shaking from head to toe, I was in tears, I was happy,
0:17:33 > 0:17:36I was...shocked, scared.
0:17:36 > 0:17:41I was all over the place! I was a mess - a happy mess!
0:17:41 > 0:17:46We spoke and we spoke for something like...
0:17:46 > 0:17:49'Oh, it was a ridiculous amount of time. It was hours.'
0:17:49 > 0:17:52And we chatted on social media for about the same length of time.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54It was something like four or five hours,
0:17:54 > 0:17:56so I don't think either of us got any sleep that night.
0:17:56 > 0:18:02'It was like finding your best friend, in a really gentle way.'
0:18:02 > 0:18:04It was exceedingly significant.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08I'd never felt close to anybody, really,
0:18:08 > 0:18:13'um, not growing up - at least, not for a long time.'
0:18:13 > 0:18:16And...suddenly having this...
0:18:17 > 0:18:21..you know, all-encompassing conversation
0:18:21 > 0:18:23about the whole of my life...
0:18:23 > 0:18:28um, with this woman I'd never met who was my mother...
0:18:29 > 0:18:30..was amazing.
0:18:32 > 0:18:3534 years after he had been given up for adoption,
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Iwan had finally found his birth mother, Sarah.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41And now they had made contact,
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Iwan learned the full story of why he had been put up for adoption.
0:18:45 > 0:18:50It began when, as a teenager, Sarah discovered she was expecting a baby.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54I was really scared. I was 14, you know.
0:18:54 > 0:19:02I was so confused, so I hid it for as long as I could.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06I was getting dressed and Mum walked in and saw my tummy
0:19:06 > 0:19:09and she went back upstairs and, bless her,
0:19:09 > 0:19:12the only thing she could say was,
0:19:12 > 0:19:14"Have you been doing something you shouldn't?"
0:19:16 > 0:19:20So, yeah. And then it all came out.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Although her family were supportive,
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Sarah had to make a decision about whether to keep her unborn child.
0:19:30 > 0:19:35My mum and dad said it was totally my choice but if I kept him,
0:19:35 > 0:19:37I'd be responsible for bringing him up,
0:19:37 > 0:19:39looking after him and everything,
0:19:39 > 0:19:43because my mum needed to work and dad as well.
0:19:43 > 0:19:49Um, so he would be totally my responsibility. Um...
0:19:51 > 0:19:54But I made the decision that he was going to be adopted
0:19:54 > 0:19:57cos I couldn't give him a proper family, I couldn't give him a dad
0:19:57 > 0:20:00and a mum, you know, in a secure...
0:20:01 > 0:20:05..environment. It was all about what HE needed
0:20:05 > 0:20:08and it wasn't HIS fault that I got pregnant,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11but he was a little boy that needed security
0:20:11 > 0:20:15and I wanted him to have more than I could give him.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19I'd made the decision, before I went in to give birth,
0:20:19 > 0:20:21that I would have him
0:20:21 > 0:20:24and I wouldn't look at him and I wouldn't cuddle him,
0:20:24 > 0:20:28cos I thought, "I'll get too attached and it will be too hard."
0:20:29 > 0:20:32And I gave birth to him and I just had to hold him.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36I couldn't just turn away and not look at him
0:20:36 > 0:20:41and not at least have one cuddle, so I did, and...
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Yeah, I fell in love with him.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47I'm going to cry now.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52I did, I fell in love with him.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55SHE SNIFFS
0:20:55 > 0:20:57And I haven't stopped loving him since.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01I can still feel it.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05I've got a photo of me holding him in the hospital in the bed,
0:21:05 > 0:21:08on my shoulder, and I can still feel.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11You never lose that. Yeah...
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Sarah named her baby boy Daniel
0:21:15 > 0:21:19and cared for him for three days in hospital.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Eventually, the time came to leave Daniel.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26The day my dad came and picked me up, I was in bits.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30The ward sister had come into the, um, the room...
0:21:31 > 0:21:33..and wanted to take Daniel away
0:21:33 > 0:21:37before my dad came and picked me up, and I wouldn't let her.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39I said, "No, he's staying with me
0:21:39 > 0:21:41"until my dad gets here and takes me home."
0:21:43 > 0:21:46And Dad came in. Poor old Dad.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Watching me, I think that was the hardest bit for him.
0:21:49 > 0:21:54I was just a mess and he had to be strong and take me home
0:21:54 > 0:21:56and that was...
0:21:56 > 0:21:58The worst bit was walking out of the hospital
0:21:58 > 0:22:01cos I felt like I was abandoning him.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03The guilt is less now
0:22:03 > 0:22:07but you never stop feeling guilty ever.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Sarah moved on with her life
0:22:12 > 0:22:16but the baby boy she had to give up was never far from her thoughts.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21I got married at 19 and then, two years later,
0:22:21 > 0:22:26I had my son Jonathan and we were in Peterborough then
0:22:26 > 0:22:29and I remember coming home.
0:22:29 > 0:22:34I panicked cos I thought, "Oh, I'm responsible for this one."
0:22:35 > 0:22:37I rang my mum and I said, "I need you."
0:22:37 > 0:22:41Mum came over and I can remember saying to my mum,
0:22:41 > 0:22:45with tears down my face, "I can keep this one. This one's mine."
0:22:46 > 0:22:51Yeah, that was hugely emotional. It helped heal the hurt that...
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Because I had Daniel and I had nothing to love at the end of it.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58You'd think about him on his birthday,
0:22:58 > 0:23:00you'd think about him at Christmas.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I'd do things with the children, you know,
0:23:03 > 0:23:08and "I wonder how Daniel is. What does he look like?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11"How tall is he? What does he like?"
0:23:12 > 0:23:16You know, when the kids are having a strop, "I wonder if HE has a strop."
0:23:17 > 0:23:21You know. You always... He's always there, in the back of your mind.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23I wonder...
0:23:23 > 0:23:27And I think the biggest thing was, "What does he look like?"
0:23:29 > 0:23:3434 years later, Sarah was finally about to find out.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36After the phone call,
0:23:36 > 0:23:40neither Iwan nor Sarah wanted to waste any time in meeting up.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43We met at London Bridge station.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Bless her, Mum was a bit of a wreck, but she was fine.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49And there was lots of hugs and lots of tears and it was amazing.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51It was the most amazing day of my life.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53I was a bag of nerves.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57I was stuttering and spluttering and we laughed about it in the end
0:23:57 > 0:24:00and I kept calling him "Daniel" and he said, "It's fine.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04"I don't care what you call me." Um, but, no... And it was...
0:24:04 > 0:24:06It's almost like you knew each other.
0:24:06 > 0:24:12It was really weird, it was surreal, you know.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15A 34-year-old guy turns up, he's my son,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18but there's a bond, there's an instant bond.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21It was... It was amazing.
0:24:21 > 0:24:26And we just hugged and we held hands immediately.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29I wasn't letting go of him.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32And it was just natural.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35The first time I met her, I fell in love with her completely,
0:24:35 > 0:24:39um, which sounds weird, but, you know, it's not.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43It's perfectly natural and she's absolutely amazing.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47It was only a few days after meeting Iwan and I said to him...
0:24:48 > 0:24:53"Do you want to call me 'Mum'?" And he did, straightaway.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55She asked me what I wanted to be called and I said,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58"Well, Iwan, that's my first name. That's all I've always known
0:24:58 > 0:25:02"and I think that's the easiest thing going forward, for me."
0:25:02 > 0:25:05She sometimes calls me Daniel, which is funny.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10And it's not just a mother Iwan has found.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13He's now part of a family he never knew he had.
0:25:13 > 0:25:18I've also met my half-sister and my half-brother
0:25:18 > 0:25:21and they're lovely, really, really nice.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Loads of character, both of them.
0:25:23 > 0:25:28I finally got my photograph of all my three children together.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31That was a hell of a day. That was good.
0:25:32 > 0:25:38I waited 35 years to have a photograph
0:25:38 > 0:25:41of Iwan and Jonathan and Hannah all together with me.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45I've inherited, I think, quite a large family -
0:25:45 > 0:25:48certainly larger than any family I've ever known.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52Iwan and Sarah are still in the process of catching up
0:25:52 > 0:25:55on over 30 years of life,
0:25:55 > 0:25:58so today, they're meeting up to share some more memories.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00We're off to a cafe to meet Mum
0:26:00 > 0:26:05and then we're going to have a look at the house where she grew up.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08I've never been to any of these places.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10I don't know, personally, the places
0:26:10 > 0:26:12that she grew up in and all of that,
0:26:12 > 0:26:16so it will be nice to see Boston and, hopefully,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20the weather will clear up, but I don't hold my breath for that.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- Hello.- Hello.- How are you?- I'm good, thanks. How are you?- I'm all right.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36To help fill in the years spent apart,
0:26:36 > 0:26:39they've both brought some photos,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42including one of a teenage Sarah
0:26:42 > 0:26:45just a few months before she gave birth to Iwan.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51- That was doing an operatic... - Oh, yeah.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56- I was actually pregnant with you then.- Wow! I'm in there.- Yes.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58But no-one knew.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01- And these are ones from later. - Oh, look!
0:27:03 > 0:27:09- You're so cute!- Mmm.- You're very much like that now.- What?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11- Like making a mess? - Loud and lairy!- Yeah.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13THEY LAUGH
0:27:13 > 0:27:17We're just very content where we are now.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20When we first saw each other and everything,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23it was a bit...up in the air
0:27:23 > 0:27:26and it was very emotional and it was a rollercoaster,
0:27:26 > 0:27:29but now we're just so comfortable with everything.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33We're just like any other family members, any other mum and son.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37It's just comfy, it's good to be with each other
0:27:37 > 0:27:41and have each other in each other's lives, just natural.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45To have a mother who is... who's remarried
0:27:45 > 0:27:49- and also been very open about it... - Mmm.- ..is a really rare thing.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51I was never going it hide...
0:27:51 > 0:27:56- I can't imagine you being ashamed of it or hiding it either.- It happened.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- It was an accident.- Yeah. - And here we are.- Yeah.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01- All done.- Yeah, I know.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- And I'm very pleased, I'm very happy.- Yep, so am I.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12The next stop for mother and son is the house where Sarah grew up,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15where she discovered she was pregnant with Iwan
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and where she made the decision to give him up
0:28:17 > 0:28:21so he could have a better life than the one she could have provided.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Crikey, this brings back memories!
0:28:25 > 0:28:27I bet it does.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31- There it is.- This one here?- Yeah. It hasn't changed much.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35That's where you lived. It looks like a lovely house.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37- It was a happy house.- Yeah.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41- Yeah, although we went through some emotional times.- Sure.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44Does it bring back a lot of memories for you, coming back here?
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Yeah, and it's not as hard as I thought it was going to be.
0:28:47 > 0:28:51- That's nice.- I think, now, cos I've got you...- Yeah.- That's...
0:28:51 > 0:28:52That's the main thing.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54..put all that into perspective,
0:28:54 > 0:28:58cos I thought, "Golly, is this going to be really emotional
0:28:58 > 0:29:01- "and difficult?" And it hasn't been. - I wondered if it would be that.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04- It feels like it's the right thing to do now.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06- I know what you mean. - Cos we're both in the place
0:29:06 > 0:29:10- where we can deal with it and cope with it and...- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15Now I feel like I certainly have a mum
0:29:15 > 0:29:18who I can talk to about anything, which is amazing.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20I've never had that before.
0:29:20 > 0:29:25Iwan coming back, it has made me think, "What if, if I'd kept him?"
0:29:27 > 0:29:30But if I had kept him, I may not have met my ex-husband
0:29:30 > 0:29:33and had Jonathan and Hannah, so I've got no regrets.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36And both of us have said what happened happened,
0:29:36 > 0:29:39the past is the past, what we've got now is the future
0:29:39 > 0:29:42and that's the important thing.
0:29:42 > 0:29:46Since meeting my mum, I'm a lot more settled in myself
0:29:46 > 0:29:48and I definitely have a sense of identity.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51It's really nice having someone in your life
0:29:51 > 0:29:53who you look like and that you ARE like.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57I think you grow up with discussions about nature versus nurture
0:29:57 > 0:30:00and you might have these ideas about it
0:30:00 > 0:30:01but you really don't have any clue
0:30:01 > 0:30:04about what that really means, practically...
0:30:05 > 0:30:09..or emotionally, and then, finally, for all of that to sink into place,
0:30:09 > 0:30:14- is amazing.- Now I've got him, Iwan's here forever.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16SARAH LAUGHS
0:30:16 > 0:30:20Yeah, we've always said we'll never lose each other again. Yeah.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22He's family.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36Hussin Zahra, along with his nine-year-old son, Mohammed,
0:30:36 > 0:30:40and his nephew Ali, had left their family in Egypt,
0:30:40 > 0:30:45after fleeing their war-torn home in Syria, in search of a better future.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47Hussin was heading to the UK
0:30:47 > 0:30:49to secure asylum and safety for his family,
0:30:49 > 0:30:52but had been stuck in Calais for a month.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54With the very last of his savings,
0:30:54 > 0:30:56he decided to take his biggest risk yet.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00Some people, they tell us, "You have to go only in this way,
0:31:00 > 0:31:05"by lorry, because no way to enter the UK, only in this one."
0:31:05 > 0:31:10So, they took us and they brought us in the lorry
0:31:10 > 0:31:12and we enter the UK like this.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20When we reach the...the UK,
0:31:20 > 0:31:24and I start knock the lorry from the back.
0:31:24 > 0:31:29I start to knock too much, to open to the door for us to go out.
0:31:29 > 0:31:34You know, I stay in this lorry around 12 or 13 hours, you know.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36It's very difficult.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41But there is some traffic and there is some people in the car,
0:31:41 > 0:31:44he hear the voice when I talk in the lorry,
0:31:44 > 0:31:47so they call the police and the police later on,
0:31:47 > 0:31:53he stop the lorry and we go off from the lorry like this.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Off the ferry and in the UK,
0:31:56 > 0:31:58the lorry was pulled over by the police
0:31:58 > 0:32:01and Hussin, his son and his nephew were taken into custody.
0:32:03 > 0:32:09When the police opened the door and they tell us, "Come out," I'm happy.
0:32:09 > 0:32:14They saw I have two children and me, straightaway take us,
0:32:14 > 0:32:20put us in the car and take us in safe place, you know.
0:32:20 > 0:32:23Hussin and the boys were allowed to stay in the UK
0:32:23 > 0:32:26while their applications for asylum were processed.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28They settled in Birmingham
0:32:28 > 0:32:31but, although Hussin and the boys were safe for now,
0:32:31 > 0:32:34the rest of their family were still stuck in Egypt.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36When I arrive in England,
0:32:36 > 0:32:40I feel very, you know, afraid, about my family,
0:32:40 > 0:32:44because I leave them there and they don't have anything there.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46They don't have enough money to eat.
0:32:46 > 0:32:522,000 miles away, and fearing for the family he had to leave behind,
0:32:52 > 0:32:56Hussin felt powerless. But there was one glimmer of hope.
0:32:56 > 0:33:01I reach this city and I contact the Red Cross.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Er...
0:33:03 > 0:33:10And they start help me about to join my family here.
0:33:11 > 0:33:15The British Red Cross is one of the world's best-known
0:33:15 > 0:33:18international humanitarian organisations.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22Relying on a huge global network of volunteers,
0:33:22 > 0:33:28they provide help to people in crisis, both in the UK and overseas.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32There about 17 million volunteers globally.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35In British Red Cross, there are about 30,000 volunteers,
0:33:35 > 0:33:38all in local areas, doing different services,
0:33:38 > 0:33:41like independent living, emergency response,
0:33:41 > 0:33:45first aid and, of course, international family tracing.
0:33:45 > 0:33:49They are committed to restoring contact between families
0:33:49 > 0:33:53separated by armed conflict, disaster or migration.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55We've reunited people
0:33:55 > 0:34:00from all over the world, from Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea,
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Ethiopia, Sudan - everywhere, really, everywhere.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07We always rely on the local expertise
0:34:07 > 0:34:10of the volunteers on the ground in different countries to help us,
0:34:10 > 0:34:14and every country has a different way of tracing.
0:34:14 > 0:34:19The Red Cross tracing service handle over 1,000 cases a year,
0:34:19 > 0:34:21finding and reuniting families.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25And it was to the Red Cross, that Hussin now turned for help.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27But he had no idea
0:34:27 > 0:34:30if they would be able to reunite him with his family.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34Hussin had claimed asylum on arriving in the UK
0:34:34 > 0:34:38and that's a very complex process in itself,
0:34:38 > 0:34:41because you have to prove to the Home Office
0:34:41 > 0:34:45that you fled persecution and you're interviewed
0:34:45 > 0:34:48and everything you say is being cross-checked.
0:34:48 > 0:34:53So, once you are granted protection in the UK,
0:34:53 > 0:34:56when you have refugee status, then you become eligible
0:34:56 > 0:35:00to apply for family reunion, but the criteria is very narrow,
0:35:00 > 0:35:02so it's another complex process that starts.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07Every day it took for Hussin's application for refugee status
0:35:07 > 0:35:10to be considered, was another day apart for the family.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14Finally, it was confirmed.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17But that was just the beginning of a complex process
0:35:17 > 0:35:19to bring the rest of his family to the UK
0:35:19 > 0:35:22that had no guarantee of success.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26Red Cross support worker Fabio took on the case.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28When Hussin approached us
0:35:28 > 0:35:32in the first place, he was absolutely lost
0:35:32 > 0:35:34in a sense that he said,
0:35:34 > 0:35:36"I don't know what to do." At that time,
0:35:36 > 0:35:40he was looking to apply for his family to come to the UK,
0:35:40 > 0:35:44so to go through the family reunion process, which is a complex one.
0:35:44 > 0:35:50He had no access to legal advice and there is no free legal advice
0:35:50 > 0:35:53for such situations and that was challenging.
0:35:53 > 0:35:58But immediately, it did emerge that his worry was about his family
0:35:58 > 0:36:00and I think what he told us, at that stage,
0:36:00 > 0:36:04was an incredibly worrying situation.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08A huge international team was involved with the case.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11Our aim was, obviously, to reunite Hussin with his wife
0:36:11 > 0:36:17and the rest of his children, so it was quite a massive effort, really,
0:36:17 > 0:36:19not just for us, here in the branch in Birmingham,
0:36:19 > 0:36:23but also for our colleagues in London, in our head office,
0:36:23 > 0:36:25the family reunion travel assistance team
0:36:25 > 0:36:29and, indeed, our partner agency in Egypt, in this case.
0:36:29 > 0:36:33So, a number of people involved, all focussing on the same problem.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36Trying to get families back together
0:36:36 > 0:36:40means getting approval from a string of government departments,
0:36:40 > 0:36:43such as immigration, visa and border control.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Applying for family reunion
0:36:45 > 0:36:49when you are a refugee is a very complex process.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51Gathering relevant documents
0:36:51 > 0:36:54to be able to prove that you are who you say you are,
0:36:54 > 0:36:57that you are related to your family members,
0:36:57 > 0:36:58as you say you are related,
0:36:58 > 0:37:01that you're married to your wife or your husband,
0:37:01 > 0:37:04because the Home Office asks for original documents
0:37:04 > 0:37:08and that can be very tricky for families who have been on the move,
0:37:08 > 0:37:13who have had to flee, if these documents existed, actually,
0:37:13 > 0:37:15because in some of the countries,
0:37:15 > 0:37:18there are no birth certificates or marriage certificates.
0:37:18 > 0:37:22The final stage of the process involved, first of all,
0:37:22 > 0:37:24making sure that there were no other obstacles.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27100 telephone calls, maybe,
0:37:27 > 0:37:29and numerous emails with our head office
0:37:29 > 0:37:31and communicating that back to the family here,
0:37:31 > 0:37:33back to the family in Egypt,
0:37:33 > 0:37:37so all of those things were behind the scenes
0:37:37 > 0:37:40before we actually met the family.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45It's been seven months since Hussin left his wife and children in Egypt
0:37:45 > 0:37:48and started his epic journey to the UK.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52Today, his family is finally making the same trip,
0:37:52 > 0:37:56except they are making their journey by plane.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58With the help of the Red Cross,
0:37:58 > 0:38:02they have been granted permission to join Hussin, Mohammed and Ali.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07It's long time, you know, I don't see them
0:38:07 > 0:38:13and it's more than, now, seven months. I very miss them, you know.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16It's too much I miss them, so I wait,
0:38:16 > 0:38:21but at least now they come here now together
0:38:21 > 0:38:24and we'll be same, we'll meet again all the family.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40THEY SPEAK IN NATIVE TONGUE
0:38:48 > 0:38:50HE SPEAKS IN NATIVE TONGUE
0:38:52 > 0:38:55THEY SPEAK IN NATIVE TONGUE
0:39:09 > 0:39:13To see my family, to hug them, I'm very happy, you know, very happy.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Really amazing, I think,
0:39:16 > 0:39:19and privileged to be a witness of that, really -
0:39:19 > 0:39:23seeing that sense of coming together again after such a long time
0:39:23 > 0:39:25and, more than anything else,
0:39:25 > 0:39:28the idea that we are safe, a sense of safety.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32The Red Cross will be very, very fantastic,
0:39:32 > 0:39:35because I saw from them a lot of help,
0:39:35 > 0:39:38so I'm very appreciate to them to help me.
0:39:38 > 0:39:44When we find people and when you hear about the first contact,
0:39:44 > 0:39:47that feeling is just incredible,
0:39:47 > 0:39:50because I think we can all relate to it.
0:39:50 > 0:39:55I think most people have someone in their lives that they cherish
0:39:55 > 0:39:58and so, when you see people actually being put back together
0:39:58 > 0:40:02or speaking to someone for the very first time, it's incredible.
0:40:05 > 0:40:10It's been seven months since Hussin and his family were reunited
0:40:10 > 0:40:14and they're now building a future for themselves in the UK.
0:40:14 > 0:40:18The horror of their time apart is fading and the joy of their reunion
0:40:18 > 0:40:22has already become a treasured family memory.
0:40:22 > 0:40:27Very stressed there when they wait, so when will be coming together,
0:40:27 > 0:40:31so it's amazing, you know, amazing show.
0:40:31 > 0:40:35It makes me feel...happy.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38SHE SPEAKS IN NATIVE TONGUE
0:40:38 > 0:40:40- HUSSIN TRANSLATES:- She feels very happy
0:40:40 > 0:40:45because it's finished the time for the...you know, the waiting
0:40:45 > 0:40:49and for all of the bad things has gone already now,
0:40:49 > 0:40:56and now starts a new life and everybody join with together now,
0:40:56 > 0:41:00so they feel, she feels very happy.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05Today, Red Cross case worker Fabio has come to visit Hussin,
0:41:05 > 0:41:08his wife, Sana, and their children,
0:41:08 > 0:41:11to see how they're settling into life in Britain.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15I know it's been quite a journey to come to a new place.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17It's a new city.
0:41:17 > 0:41:21I just wanted to check that everyone in your family are OK.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24Yeah, actually, everybody now they go to school
0:41:24 > 0:41:26and they start now to be in English.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30For 11-year-old Mohammed, having survived the warzone,
0:41:30 > 0:41:33a treacherous journey, and eight months without his mother,
0:41:33 > 0:41:35life is very different.
0:41:35 > 0:41:39Hussin can finally see a safe and secure future ahead
0:41:39 > 0:41:41for him and all his children.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44Have you made any friends in here now, Mohammed?
0:41:44 > 0:41:47- Do you have any friends here? - Yes.- Yes?
0:41:47 > 0:41:51There seems to be a smile on your face which is nice to see.
0:41:51 > 0:41:55- Do you like the school?- Yeah.- Yes? What's your favourite subject?
0:41:55 > 0:41:59- Science.- So you want to be a scientist one day?- Yeah.- Oh!
0:41:59 > 0:42:03Very clever, you know, and he do very good in the school
0:42:03 > 0:42:05- and everybody happy there with... - Mmm, the teacher?
0:42:05 > 0:42:09Yeah, the teacher, they're happy too much from him.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12I'm just curious to know how can you see your future?
0:42:12 > 0:42:14What would you like to see to happen?
0:42:14 > 0:42:18To work very hard here, to build us again, you know.
0:42:18 > 0:42:22To do some business here, to do something for the family.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26It's incredible to see that whatever Hussin and his wife
0:42:26 > 0:42:30and, indeed, the others in the family do is for their children,
0:42:30 > 0:42:33to make sure that they will have a better chance.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Thank you very much for you.
0:42:35 > 0:42:40- I appreciate that.- No... - You work very hard for my family.
0:42:40 > 0:42:43For us, seeing families back together means a lot,
0:42:43 > 0:42:47because it's really what gives sense to people's lives,
0:42:47 > 0:42:49being supported by your family.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52Hopefully, it will allow you to also build a better future.
0:42:52 > 0:42:55We are happy when we see families back together.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58You help us too much, you know. Thank you very much.
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