How many people come here because of the promise of work? They are committed to a better life, to get ahead. They dream about a life where anything is possible. But the first word they learn when they arrive is the one I hear the most - "impossible." How many are they who have left school, their families, the people they love? They try to give them some help, some money, but they can't give them their presence. They fight to save money but the right amount never seems to come. They dream every day, every night, of going back to their countries, of making time go back... How many years have passed like this? Trying to create a future that maybe never comes.
Friday, November 11, 2005
foreign workers in Japan
How many people come here because of the promise of work? They are committed to a better life, to get ahead. They dream about a life where anything is possible. But the first word they learn when they arrive is the one I hear the most - "impossible." How many are they who have left school, their families, the people they love? They try to give them some help, some money, but they can't give them their presence. They fight to save money but the right amount never seems to come. They dream every day, every night, of going back to their countries, of making time go back... How many years have passed like this? Trying to create a future that maybe never comes.