He called me to say he is here, but after that we haven't received any more information from him.

On November 7th, Sarah Potash received a shocking phone call from her brother Ahmed.

He had left Morocco and was on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria.

I think he had left his native country for the Canary Islands two days earlier, breathing a dangerous 60 mile journey on a rickety boat to get there like a record number of other migrants.

This year, he was seeking a better future in Europe.

Potash had no idea of his drastic plans and neither did the rest of his family.

E spoke to my brother The day that he arrived.

He contacted us by phone and told us that he had arrived here in los pelvis.

E hey had charged his phone, so he sent photos of the documents that we needed to give to the police here.

So I had to leave my family, my baby and my job to come here and pick him up.

Wait Traveled from France, where she has citizenship to Gran Canaria began a frantic search to find him way had no information about him.

We didn't know if he was dead or alive.

If he was okay or not.

All the worst thoughts pass through our heads.

But finally an official from the Red Cross was able to locate Ahmed, aided by a picture Potash gave her.

Hey was being held in a dockside camp for migrants.

On Monday night.

Potash was able to see her brother, but only from 100 m away.

The facility was set up months ago to cope with the rise in the number of migrants landing.

They're designed as a holding camp before they were moved on, but it soon became overcrowded.

Some migrants were forced to sleep in the open as the island struggled to cope.

You can't even imagine.

I can't explain how I felt in woods.

My heart was beating fast.

I had tears in my eyes.

I didn't know what to do if to take a video from my mother, take him in my arms.

E wanted to touch him, embrace him.

But he was too far him as well.

Poor him.

He was reaching out to me free from so last.

Ahmed was released from the camp on Tuesday on the purse stayed at an apartment potash had rented.

They hope to head to mainland Europe together, though Ahmed may struggle to travel if he does not have the correct documents.