The movement, created a month ago by more than 20 young students and workers who wish to emigrate, serves as a channel for the exchange of information on internal and external procedures for leaving Angola, from passport processing to visas for the country of destination.
Kennedy Manuel, one of the mentors of the "Movimento Cívico Vamos Sair de Angola", which, on its page on the social network Facebook has almost 80 interested parties, told Lusa that the initiative also aims to draw the attention of the authorities to the current condition of young people.
"In our group, most are activists and defenders of human rights and we use this form of movement to really leave Angola and also to help each other and call attention to those who govern us", he said.
The movement, he explained, intends to allow "a better understanding of how emigration procedures work, to go abroad in search of better living conditions".
Portugal, Brazil, Canada and Turkey are the main destinations for those who turn to the movement in search of support and/or information on the procedures for processing documentation, and requests have grown.
Most of those who seek them "intend to emigrate to Canada, others Turkey and others look for easier countries, like Portugal, just to open up, and then move on to other countries", he underlined.
"We have already received many requests and requests from people who want to emigrate. Many adhere, and our intention is to pass the message on how emigration works through people who are abroad, with whom we get in touch to explain how it works and share with them others," he explained.
According to Kennedy Manuel, all members of the movement intend to emigrate, but so far none have managed to do so. But, he noted, two people who came into contact with the movement "are already ready to emigrate".
"The help is not restricted here to Angola, also when we emigrate, there [abroad] we help each other", he noted.
Lack of hope in Angola, mainly due to the high unemployment rate among youth, and the high cost of living, stressed Kennedy Manuel, are the "main reasons" that lead young people to want to leave the country.
"We want to emigrate due to lack of hope, the youth is without hope, without jobs, the cost of living is very high", he shot.
The member of the movement said that he intends to emigrate "not to live permanently abroad", but only to do training and then return to the country to carry out his own project.
At least 80 interested parties, mostly young people, interact with the members of the movement, via a 'chat' created on the page of the social network, which continues to receive people interested in joining.
"There are many young people who look for us, contact us, wanting to join, the 'chat' that we created and where we shared all the information is practically out of space and many people want to join, but we have limited" entries, concluded Kennedy Manuel.
Portugal is the gateway to Europe for many young Angolans, who "desperate" for the lack of jobs and better living conditions in the African country, say they are eager to emigrate to Europe because "almost everything is missing" in Angola, as young people who intend to emigrate told Lusa.
The almost endless queues since the early hours of the day at the new visa center for Portugal, in Luanda, inaugurated last Monday, are symptomatic of this pretension of young people who are betting on the European dream for the realization of their lives.
Looking for better living conditions, job opportunities, qualified training or simple tourism are some of the purposes of many young people who believe in better days, but outside Angolan territory.
