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Mineo, near Catania, Sicily - 21 April 2015
1. Migrant on bike with rack loaded with blankets at gate to Mineo Migrants Centre, where nearly 4,000 migrants live
2. Italian soldier at gate
3. Migrant walking with two bikes outside migrant centre
4. Migrant centre shot through tall fence
5. Enos Nolli, volunteer from non-profit group Young Missionaries (Gioventu in Missionarie), hugging migrant
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Enos Nolli, volunteer working with migrants from Young Missionaries group:
"The situation is not easy to handle. This is a fact. I think there have to be some changes at a government level. It is not just a question of centres. The centres are - we also work in Caltanissetta - they are all at their limits, actually they have been stretched way beyond their limits. The centres receive them bit by bit as the migrants are brought in, but it is clear that the more there are, the harder it is to keep the situation under control."
7. Nolli saying goodbye to Hinneh Evans, Christian migrant from Ghana
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hinneh Evans, 22-year-old migrant from Ghana:
"On our way they used guns on us, that we would get on the boat and go. Nobody was expecting, because this journey is very dangerous, we all know about it, nobody ever tried, including myself, I never tried this journey in my mind before. But I had no option then but to get on the boat. I boarded to boat and we came. We were lucky. We were lucky."
9. Bible in hand of Evans
10. Migrant on bike outside migrant centre, soldiers standing around
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bashir Sunusi, 21-year-old migrant from Nigeria:
"The life in Mineo (is) ok. We are here and we are waiting for our documents. We don't know what will be the work of our judges. Up to now they never bring out results out, we are waiting for it, waiting, waiting. Up to now we are so tired of waiting. They say to us everything must be small, small, must go slow, slow, so we are still waiting for it."
12. African migrants walking out of centre
13. Houses in Mineo migrant centre
14. Focus pull of Mineo centre in distance and road sign showing children crossing
STORYLINE
Migrant centres on the Italian island of Sicily were stretched way beyond their limits following the significant increase of arrivals in recent weeks, a volunteer at the migrant centre of Mineo, near Catania, said on Tuesday.
The Mineo centre is home to 4,000 asylum seekers, who are living there whilst their cases are processed.
On Tuesday, they were joined by survivors of the shipwreck in which as many as 950 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean on Sunday.
The Mineo centre, located on the grounds of a former US Navy base, is the island's largest.
But even so, according to a volunteer working at the centre from Young Missionaries (Gioventu in Missionarie) group, Enos Nolli, the situation there was "not easy to handle" with the capacity stretched way above its limit.
Nolli urged the government to step up its effort to tackle the problem.
Some of the centre's residents have been staying there for months, waiting for their paperwork to be processed and with new asylum seekers arriving there every day, the waiting time is not set to become any shorter.
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