Domba
Returning to the world of mechanics, today we meet Domba, twenty-two (22) years old.
We had already talked about him in Aminou's profile since they have a joint project to set up a garage. Passionate from his adolescence about the cars around him due to his mother's dealership work, he went to Saint-Louis, Senegal, in 2021 to pursue mechanical training before returning to Mauritania, his home country, in 2022 for paperwork reasons.
It is through his aunt Aïssata, his guardian, that he discovers and manages to integrate into the training offered by Caritas. He excels because of his past with cars and his Senegalese training, but he assures that Caritas has allowed him to do his work more cleanly, to better detect breakdowns, to know new parts that were until then unknown to him while allowing him to really put himself in working conditions.
His skills also serve him at work where he often has the chance to go with his internship supervisor to other companies to change hydraulic pumps, repair cranes, or make diagnostics.
Domba, however, notes a major problem: the lack of equipment. Indeed, he often has to work with aging tools like the fault detection machine he shows us, noting that it is not "entirely modern, but we make do," or the difficulty he felt when seeing electric and hybrid cars arriving of which he knew nothing, underscoring the importance of the internship.
Finally, Domba currently does not receive a salary, and although he looks for work opportunities, he faces difficulties because in Mauritania, company heads prefer to recruit within their close networks of acquaintances rather than based on proven skills.