Malick Jeng, 19, left his hometown of Banjul, Gambia, on 14 March 2016. He faced a risky journey to Libya; he crossed the desert in Mali inside an oil tank and says he was held in a Libyan prison until his family paid for his release. On 2 August, Malick was crossing the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy with 120 other people when he was rescued and transferred to Italy. Migrants are taken to temporary asylum centres where they can wait up to two years before their claim is answered. Malick was transferred to Biella, a town in the north of the country

Photograph: Cesar Dezfuli