"On a mild, sunny winter morning, Amadou, from Mauritania, and Moussa, from Mali, prepare for their day in Barcelona, Spain on October 23, 2007. Amadou says, �Things are really hard here. It�s cold at night and we have no heat.� According to the International Organization for Migrations (OIM), there are four factors that push a young generation of Africans toward Europe: poverty, high birth rates without a system that guarantees education or health, everyday life that is worsening due to the desertification of the continent and the large number of armed conflicts. " ©Charlie Mahoney

On a mild, sunny winter morning, Amadou, from Mauritania, and Moussa, from Mali, prepare for their day in Barcelona, Spain on October 23, 2007. Amadou says, �Things are really hard here. It�s cold at night and we have no heat.� According to the International Organization for Migrations (OIM), there are four factors that push a young generation of Africans toward Europe: poverty, high birth rates without a system that guarantees education or health, everyday life that is worsening due to the desertification of the continent and the large number of armed conflicts.