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African social worker helps migrants

Cristiane VieiraDecember 15, 2015

Adelino Massuvira João is a Mozambican who comes to the aid of asylum seekers and migrants at a refugee hostel in Suhl, eastern Germany. He answers their questions and helps them cope with German bureaucracy.

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Sozialarbeiter Adelino Massuvira João
Image: DW/C. Vieira

African social worker helps migrants

The hostel can accommodate 1200 migrants and it has been full to capacity over the past few weeks. Five percent of the asylum seekers are African - mainly Somalis and Eritreans.