Travelling Light

In 2015, more than 300,000 refugees undertook the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Italy. Syrians call it 'The Journey of Death'. For a lot of money, they put their lives and those of their families into the hands of
smugglers, who promise to take them across the sea. Crammed into small, unseaworthy boats - often for many
hours, if not days, without food and drinking water - they hold out in the hope that they will get rescued before the boat gives in. Who are the people that risk their lives in the Mediterranean? I wanted to know what people, who leave everything behind to embark on such a gruelling journey, manage to take over into a new life, and what these items mean to them.