“I have been unemployed for more than a year. I have been trying to find a job but it is not easy. The hardest part about being unemployed is that you feel as if your life is being put on hold. I have friends who have good jobs and they have enough money to get married and buy things. It is not easy but my dad taught me to not be jealous. He always said that the only person you should compare yourself to, is who you were yesterday. So that is what I am trying to do.”
(Tunis, Tunisia)
“My dad has been selling cigarettes all his life. When he passed away I took over his business. I used to work in the market but because the few tourists we have left, the store went out of business. Many of us feel the stress of the failing economy and everyone here...