New to the Parish: Precious Matumba came to Ireland from Zimbabwe in 2018
When Precious Matumba arrived in Ireland from Zimbabwe as an international protection applicant in 2018 with her two sons, she had no proof they were her children.DNA tests were organised to show they were indeed her children.‘Ireland is a home for my children. They wouldn’t know Kenya, they know Ireland’
“They linked me in with support and with Women’s Aid and the psychotherapy services, adult mental health services and the whole works,” she says. Matumba had no access to education, no access to most social services, was surviving on less than €40 a week, and could not work because she was waiting for her work permit to come through.
“I was really hesitant to do it, and was like even if I got the place , I’m still not going to get the scholarship, and she was like no, just apply – the worst they could do is just say no. At that point, no didn’t seem like it was going to cost me further,” Matumba says. “Here comes trouble now, all the supports now they’ve left, there’s no wraparound supports, so I come here and I have no idea how to handle the electric, the bills and no idea what to do with the gas, how to switch on the radiators, I had no idea how to do anything,” she says.“It was Covid times as well, because that was 2020-21, when I came here. No one is talking to anybody; everyone is locked in their house, and I remember I was stuck in a cold house for about a week.
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