10/12/2025
DE-EN (below)
Barry fordert seine Rechte und Zugang zu seinen persönlichen Dokumenten.
Wir wissen:
Spenden können die Verantwortung staatlicher Institutionen nicht ersetzen – aber sie können Barry Zeit verschaffen und für Sicherheit sorgen, während wir gemeinsam Druck ausüben, um eine dauerhafte und staatlich finanzierte Lösung zu finden.
Vielen Dank für jede Form der Unterstützung.
ARRiVATi-Team
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EN
How can a blind man be sent from city to city with no rights and no protection?
Short description:
Alpha Alimou Barry came to Germany in 2014 as a healthy young man, to study and to build a professional life. Like many migrants on arrival, he was sent to a medical checkup and told that he needed urgent surgery to the cornea of his eyes. After the serious eye operation he is now 100 percent blind, without secure papers, without accessible accommodation and without disability support. Several emergency shelters have rejected him. We are raising funds to stabilise Barry’s humanitarian situation in the short term and at the same time build pressure on authorities so that state institutions finally take responsibility for his care and his social and human rights.
Since this operation, his life has been turned upside down.
Barry reports that after the operation he was severely visually impaired, but did not receive continuous adequate health insurance, disability support and thus no appropriate follow up care. In his search for help he travelled through several European countries, including Switzerland and the Netherlands. Everywhere he received the same answer: Germany is responsible for your case.
Later, during another eye examination, he learned that the procedure he had undergone was a corneal transplant. He should have received a transplant pass and important related medical documents. Barry reports that he never received any of these papers.
Over time, his identity and residence documents were taken away and effectively blocked.
Today Barry is 100 percent blind, without secure papers, without stable accommodation and without the support he needs as a disabled person. Several shelters keep rejecting him, saying they do not have capacity for visually impaired or blind people.
At the same time, authorities expect him to move between cities and institutions, often without accompaniment, without secure income and without reliable protection.
In recent weeks we at ARRiVATi – Community Care have been accompanying Barry, documenting his story and trying to support him in the search for accessible housing and in clarifying his documents and entitlements. But our capacities as a small community based non-profit structure are limited.
For us it is important to be very clear:
The responsibility for accommodation, health care and disability rights lies with the state. A small community organization cannot take over the duties of the administrative state. What we can do is to make the gaps visible, cushion the worst effects for a short time and build pressure so that the responsible authorities take their obligations towards Barry seriously.
We are making this case public because it shows how a blind and displaced man can fall between all the cracks of the German social welfare system, and because we do not want Barry to be left alone again in this appalling situation.
This campaign is meant to provide for his immediate safety and at the same time to send a clear message to those responsible – the care of a blind man must not depend on emergency volunteer structures. It belongs in the hands of the responsible public institutions.
How your donations will be used
Donations via GoFundMe will help Barry directly to:
• find and pay for temporary, safe and as far as possible barrier free accommodation
• receive accompaniment to offices, doctors and counselling services, including travel costs
• access legal and social law advice regarding his documents, his transplant pass and his entitlements
• receive support in applying for disability status, social benefits and health insurance
• cover basic needs such as food, hygiene items and communication costs during the transition period while his situation is still unclear
Barry is asking for his rights and access to his personal documents.
We know:
Donations cannot replace the responsibility of state institutions – but they can “buy” Barry time and provide safety while we build pressure together for a durable and state funded solution.
Thank you for any form of support.
ARRiVATi-Team
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