“(After returning) I felt that I was breathing better, I felt freer, at ease, in my land, speaking my language, like a bird that had gotten out from a cage.”
(English) She applied for the reintegration grant and received equipment to start a food preparation business. IOM staff spoke with her six months after she began work, and Valentina’s business is operative but not yet earning a profit.
She is glad to be back with her family but still misses Ireland. She said, “Sometimes I have doubts, but I think that I was going through a hard time there.”
