On January 5, he’ll go on the parade dressed as Baltasar and can tour the streets of MálagaHady Coulibaly fled on the age of 18 from the difficult scenario that plagued his nation, at warfare and in disaster. He presently works on the CEAR within the capital as chargeable for upkeep and cleansing and examine to grow to be a social integrator
The magician king Baltasar from the parade of the Three Kings in Malaga is known as Hady Coulibaly, a 29-year-old African from Mali who was guided by a star when he determined to embark on an extended and tough journey by life from his land looking for peace and forge a future; however for that he needed to soar – like different irregular immigrants – the border fence of Melilla.
On January 5, he will even climb excessive, however now within the carriage of the black king within the conventional Cabalgata de los Magos in Malaga and, topped on that throne, he’ll try to make youngsters glad. Embodying the character would be the immigrant who fled on the age of 18 from the difficult scenario that plagued his nation, at warfare and with an financial disaster, and who in the present day has managed to be totally built-in in Spain, the place he works, research to combine others and now could have the distinction to get pleasure from an expertise reserved for only a few.
Yes, it will likely be -nothing less- than Baltasar, however loads occurred earlier than. He labored within the fields in Mali. When he selected to separate from his individuals (he has seven brothers there, amongst different family) to go in the direction of one other horizon, he needed to face two years of a sophisticated path wherein he traveled by three nations -Mauritania, Algeria and Morocco- earlier than stepping on Spanish territory in 2013.
On that journey he tried to “do one thing to outlive”, as he remembers, for which he was searching for a job. Along with different immigrants, he jumped over the Melilla fence that separates two worlds. From that he remembers that it was “his salvation, a really glad second” and, though he admits that it isn’t authorized to cross that barrier, he focuses on the motive of the one that does it, in his case earlier than the deaths within the warfare in his nation .
Her stay modified
He stayed in Melilla for 2 months till, as an applicant for asylum and worldwide safety, he was transferred by boat to a refugee heart in Malaga virtually a decade in the past. It was there that his life started to vary. He discovered “a brand new household”, that of the Spanish Commission for Aid to Refugees (CEAR), which gave him assist and love, offered him with lodging and helped him practice and work.
During the primary 4 years in what he calls “my metropolis” he discovered the Spanish that he now handles properly and attended coaching programs, whereas searching for all types of jobs. She spent three years underneath the asylum standing wherein each six months she needed to renew “the crimson card”; He was capable of receive social roots by work after that point in Spain plus a one-year contract as a gardener and, on this method, regularize his scenario already in 2016.
Sometimes he was known as in to cowl the vacations of a janitor, he labored for a time in a warehouse of merchandise for oriental bazaars and, one summer season, within the municipal rubbish assortment in close by Vélez-Málaga. But they have been quick contracts till on the finish of 2017 he started working at CEAR within the upkeep and cleansing of its heart within the capital of Malaga, the place he continues and in addition research first of the upper stage of Social Integration Technician with the goal of “with the ability to assist the individuals” who “want assist and solidarity. Over time he has even been capable of return to his nation 3 times.
A “Malian-Malagueño” Baltasar
In the capital of the Costa del Sol, he has met “marvelous individuals” who make him really feel “at residence”, which is why he likes to say that he’s a “Malian-Malagueño” since on this metropolis – he assures – “Malagueños from totally different origins and totally different colours”. This Muslim who values the Christian-based custom of the Three Kings Parade as a result of it “provides pleasure to youngsters” is grateful to have the ability to carry King Baltasar to life in Malaga and “share a magical day” with the youngsters and their households.
This has been doable as a result of the native custom that Melchor is a consultant of the media, Gaspar somebody proposed by the Association of Easter Brotherhoods and Baltasar a councilor of the city corridor representing the municipal company has been partially damaged this 12 months.
After formally saying that Baltasar could be incarnated by the spokesman for the United Podemos Municipal Group, Nicolás Sguiglia, he resigned, stating that “the right factor is that King Baltasar ought to ideally be incarnated by a black or Afro-descendant particular person” from the town and ceded that mission to Hady.
The pages that can accompany this king for a day can be a Senegalese citizen and one other Colombian, whereas Sguiglia can be another participant within the float. “That the clever males make all of the goals and needs of girls and boys come true”, is the want of this Baltasar who takes the chance to assert that “we stay in a world the place there may be peace and the place everybody, past the nation of origin and the colour of the pores and skin, allow us to be brothers and stay in equality”.