Wilson is 20 years old he has been homeless for 2 years in Germany.

Added: 2026-06-10

[00:00:00]Hello guys, what's up? It's your boy Africa Alive. Today I'm right here with a brother from Guinea-Bissau who is homeless. He's a very young guy and I met him here in Hamburg. So today we are going to interview him and ask him what he's doing here, why he's homeless, and why he don't want to go back home. Hello bro, how are you?

[00:00:18]>> My name Wilson, bro.

[00:00:20]>> What's your name?

[00:00:20]>> My name Wilson.

[00:00:21]>> How are you? Good?

[00:00:22]>> Yeah, I'm good, man.

[00:00:23]>> Okay.

[00:00:25]Okay. How old are you?

[00:00:27]>> Uh what's my my family?

[00:00:29]>> How old are you?

[00:00:30]>> Age?

[00:00:30]>> Yeah, age. 20 years old?

[00:00:32]>> 20 years.

[00:00:33]>> Age? 20 years old?

[00:00:35]21?

[00:00:36]21? 21 years of age. And he can speak English.

[00:00:40]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:00:41]>> We are going to manage and you guys should try to understand. We just want to pass on the message and to let you guys know his present situation. Maybe his family member can see this video and they can come to his rescue and help him get him off the street because he's sleeping outside here in Hamburg.

[00:01:01]Sleeping on the street and he's a homeless. So we're trying to advocate for him to get a support so he can get off the street. You sleeping outside?

[00:01:10]>> Uh yeah, outside. Yeah, yeah. China house in Pickhaxe.

[00:01:13]>> Pickhaxe?

[00:01:13]>> Yeah, Pickhaxe.

[00:01:14]>> Homeless?

[00:01:32]Okay. So what he's trying to say here is he sleep at a homeless uh apartments where there are a lot of homeless.

[00:01:42]Uh maybe one room.

[00:01:44]It might be four or five people in one room. So that is the place where he sleep.

[00:01:49]>> Yeah, this is like a uh >> Normally Pickhaxe.

[00:01:53]Four room?

[00:01:54]>> Yeah, four.

[00:01:58]>> Uh four room? Four?

[00:02:00]>> Sofia Sofia person.

[00:02:01]Okay, what he's trying to say is one room is four person per room. So, that is what he's trying to say.

[00:02:09]Who bring you to eat in Germany?

[00:02:11]>> Germany is about in here for a year.

[00:02:16]>> About >> Yeah, it's about in here.

[00:02:27]>> Okay, about in here.

[00:02:28]>> Yeah, yeah, about in here. It's younger Portuguese. Yeah, it's come out Portugal.

[00:02:32]>> Yeah.

[00:02:32]>> Germany about in here. Yeah, it's going to be a problem.

[00:02:35]>> Okay, I got it. So, what he's trying to say is he was working in Germany. Yeah, he worked for like two years and he got sacked.

[00:02:45]And then when they sacked him, then he lose everything. So, he became homeless and uh life become difficult for him. So, that is what he's trying to say. Why Why did you boss sack you?

[00:03:00]Why? Why?

[00:03:01]>> Why is uh >> Why couldn't you go?

[00:03:09]>> You know bro.

[00:03:09]>> Mhm.

[00:03:10]>> Yeah, it's about in >> Mhm.

[00:03:23]Okay. So, he was working in GLS company, a delivering company and then he got sacked. I don't get Dutch well, but I can understand a little bit. So, I can speak Italian and also Portuguese small small.

[00:03:39]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:03:40]>> He's from Portugal. How long How many years you spent in you spent in Portugal?

[00:03:46]>> In Portugal seven years.

[00:03:48]>> He spent seven years in Portugal.

[00:03:51]Deutschland Germany >> Deutschland two years.

[00:03:56]>> Two years in in Germany and uh seven years in Portugal.

[00:04:01]>> Yeah, yeah.

[00:04:02]>> Where is your mom?

[00:04:04]>> My mom?

[00:04:04]>> Yeah.

[00:04:05]>> My mom Africa, Africa.

[00:04:06]>> Your mom is Africa.

[00:04:07]>> Yeah, Africa, brother. Africa. My mom Africa, bro.

[00:04:11]>> Your mom is in Africa.

[00:04:12]>> Africa, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:04:13]>> Your mom know that you are sleeping outside?

[00:04:15]>> No, my mom My mom >> Yeah.

[00:04:24]Okay.

[00:04:24]>> Uh yeah.

[00:04:25]>> Yeah.

[00:04:29]>> This is your mama?

[00:04:30]>> My mama Africa in the >> Your mama this is a gross.

[00:04:33]>> No, no, it was this a man this a man problem.

[00:04:36]>> Oh, yeah, problem.

[00:04:37]>> Yeah, my problem not from problem my mama. My problem important.

[00:04:42]>> Okay. So, his mom is in Africa and uh his mom doesn't know that he is sleeping outside presently. So, I pray that his mom see this video, maybe his mom have some family members here in in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, they can able, you know, like to help this guy like the way I have helped the other homeless guys who have been rescued by their family member. I pray that they see this video and they come to this little boy rescue because the life here is not easy. I saw him >> Klippmann >> sitting down there.

[00:05:17]It's not easy.

[00:05:22]I see. Sometimes you see Wait, I'm coming. Do you have a document?

[00:05:32]>> This document was any >> Passport Portuguese?

[00:05:37]>> Yeah, Portuguese Portuguese.

[00:05:39]>> Yeah.

[00:05:49]>> Come >> Prison?

[00:05:53]>> Yeah, prison.

[00:05:55]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:06:01]Okay.

[00:06:02]The passport is not for you.

[00:06:11]You prison 8 months?

[00:06:13]Okay, I think I understand what he was saying. What? I'm coming.

[00:06:18]What he's saying is he has a Portuguese passport and uh he gave the passport Yeah, he gave the passport to somebody to work.

[00:06:31]And okay, I'm coming. And police went to the place where the person was working with the passport.

[00:06:39]And after controlling the passport, they find out that the passport doesn't belong to the guy.

[00:06:45]So, he They chased this guy and this guy went to prison, right?

[00:06:50]>> Yeah, prison.

[00:06:51]>> He went to prison.

[00:06:53]For 2 months.

[00:06:55]Your friend, how many months?

[00:06:58]2 months.

[00:06:59]Your friend, how many months? Your friend went to prison, too?

[00:07:04]Okay. He went to prison.

[00:07:07]He went to prison for 2 months because he gave his documents, his passport to someone else to work.

[00:07:19]How did you manage to get Portuguese passports?

[00:07:23]Yeah, passport.

[00:07:25]You, how? 7 years in Portugal.

[00:07:31]You pay money?

[00:07:33]You pay money Portugal?

[00:07:36]So, for to get a passport?

[00:07:38]Oh, how is that possible, man? It's crazy, man.

[00:07:41]>> Rest on one.

[00:07:44]>> I will, bro.

[00:07:45]>> They paid money to get a um a passport. I think so, but how is that possible, you know, like you spend 7 years in Portugal. But that is not the case. Our problem here is for you to get a apartment and somebody who can rescue you, maybe your family member. Are you from Portugal?

[00:08:03]>> Yeah, yeah, Portugal.

[00:08:04]>> So my um Portugal Guinea-Bissau, right?

[00:08:07]>> Guinea-Bissau, yeah, bro.

[00:08:09]>> Hello to Guinea-Bissau people. This is our brother here. Watch the camera.

[00:08:13]>> Yeah, bro.

[00:08:14]>> This is our brother here. He's from Guinea-Bissau. He came all the way from Portugal. 7 years in Portugal. He spent 7 years there. And 2 years here in Deutschland. He went to prison for 2 months because he gave his document to someone else.

[00:08:31]So to the Guinea-Bissau community, if you speak English, understand, share this video.

[00:08:36]This boy is sleeping outside. He has been sleeping outside for quite a long time now. I've been seeing him here in Hamburg. And uh anytime I came here, I saw him like it's very difficult for him. So if you guys see this video, please come to this guy's rescue and help him out.

[00:08:54]You drink alcohol?

[00:08:56]>> Much more, yeah, yeah, I drink alcohol, yeah.

[00:08:58]>> You You drink Yeah, you you you drink always? All the time?

[00:09:03]>> Always usually, you know, always, always.

[00:09:06]>> Always. You drink alcohol always?

[00:09:07]>> Yeah, this yeah, this my life, bro.

[00:09:11]>> What about smoking, eh?

[00:09:12]>> Yeah, I smoke a little bit of marijuana.

[00:09:14]>> Marijuana?

[00:09:15]>> Yeah, bro.

[00:09:16]>> Can you stop taking marijuana?

[00:09:18]>> No, not marijuana, bro.

[00:09:20]>> You can stop?

[00:09:28]>> Mhm.

[00:09:31]>> So he smoke and also he take um alcohol, so if you can see and he's not too okay.

[00:09:41]What I'm saying here is you need to be strong. Stay away from crime, stay away from bad substance, okay?

[00:09:47]>> Yeah.

[00:09:47]>> Kind of smoking, alcohol, need to go, okay?

[00:09:50]>> Yeah, need to go, yeah.

[00:09:52]>> And and need to go, smoking, alcohol, need to go, okay?

[00:09:55]>> Yeah, we say that.

[00:09:56]>> Uh you are too small and too young. I think you're supposed to go back where you come from. Portugal go.

[00:10:02]>> Portugal, Portugal, yeah.

[00:10:03]>> You want to go back Portugal?

[00:10:04]>> Portugal go to my land, Portugal go to bro.

[00:10:06]>> You want to go back?

[00:10:08]>> Uh it go Portugal, yeah. One year, one year.

[00:10:11]>> You want to go back?

[00:10:12]>> Yeah, yeah, it's one year.

[00:10:14]>> Documents, where is your document?

[00:10:16]>> Excuse me, I got no my document, bro.

[00:10:17]>> Kind of document?

[00:10:18]>> What kind of document?

[00:10:18]>> Kind of document Portugal?

[00:10:19]>> It's my name, bro. Police police name, bro.

[00:10:22]>> Police I took your document?

[00:10:24]>> yeah, but my document, bro.

[00:10:25]>> Why why why did he take your document?

[00:10:27]>> Uh this is under brother under brother give me missing This is my brother give me Give me my one passport to my city. I don't know to go. This is my my name and passport. This is my my name and passport to my city name.

[00:10:42]What's your name? What's your name? This is my my passport.

[00:10:46]What's your name? My name passport my my name.

[00:10:49]>> Okay, wait wait wait wait.

[00:10:51]You your brother give you >> Spain Spain >> Your brother give you bad substance. So you swallow it?

[00:10:57]>> Eat eat. Yeah yeah.

[00:11:00]>> You swallow >> No no no.

[00:11:02]>> Oh oh >> This is my land.

[00:11:04]>> Police yeah police take your your passport because of >> No.

[00:11:10]>> Guys, you know it's difficult to get passport.

[00:11:12]>> Passport passport under colleague, bro.

[00:11:15]Under colleague name in the city name.

[00:11:17]This is my passport.

[00:11:19]>> It's not your passport.

[00:11:20]>> My passport is this my my brother.

[00:11:22]>> Yeah.

[00:11:23]>> You name him. Police I name him Danny.

[00:11:26]You speak in this is your passport in this city to my city name.

[00:11:28]>> Yeah.

[00:11:28]>> My passport is this my my to go. They give me >> Mhm.

[00:11:33]>> You my city name.

[00:11:33]>> Yeah.

[00:11:34]>> Yeah, you go.

[00:11:39]For what? Yeah.

[00:11:44]>> Guys, I know you guys understand this story already.

[00:11:52]I think he gave his passport to for black black markets or stuff like that. I don't really understand. For those of you that understand Dutch, you know, like I know you can understand about German and Dutch because I don't speak German and Dutch. What he was saying is like but but illegal things and This is very bad. So, I'm going to leave you, okay? We pray that your community people see this video so they can help you, okay? So, we go I get you food, okay?

[00:12:24]I'm not going to give you money because if I give you money, you take it to buy alcohol or buy substances, okay?

[00:12:29]And you are my little brother, okay?

[00:12:31]Everything going to be all right, okay?

[00:12:33]Stay cool, stay calm, you know, God bless you and God will surely see you through, okay? Just like the other people who I have helped in Germany and France, Belgium, you [music] know, everything is just a little by little, okay?

[00:12:50]Don't stress.

[00:12:52]Tranquil.

[00:12:54]MP MP, okay?

[00:12:57]Okay. How is good?

[00:12:59]Okay.

[00:13:04]This is a video. This is a video. Go YouTube.

[00:13:09]How is good?

[00:13:13]Fuck no.