Real life stories

Being young! It is such a dream in my home land… being young means hard work for food.

Nothing more. I prefer not to talk about my origin, but to talk about how I got here. Well, I decided to use the little money I had to leave my homeland for a better life. Firstly, for a better life of my children. I got to Europe, willing to find a job, a shelter and to start gaining money and making a good situation in order to bring all my family here. My journey in Europe meant living in a room with other 5 migrants with the same purpose as me working as a cleaning lady on the streets and then, getting to a small restaurant to clean dishes.

There, I had the luck to meet someone extraordinary, who had a brilliant idea: to open a new restaurant with oriental food, using the recipes I know from my home land. Done! I started to work with him as a cook aid, then as a real cook and I was getting closer to my dream: have my family together for a better life. After some years, I decided to go back home and took them with me: children, husband and parents.

But unfortunately, my parents had died of Malaria, and my husband left the house. Actually, my little children had to take care by themselves. Seeing me, they cried a lot asking me not to leave them again. I took them with me for a better life, full of education and a future ahead!

I prefer not to give information about my origin – just oriental. Please understand my privacy need.