New to the Parish: Mother-of-two Tabasum Kouser moved to Ireland from India in 2015
and found her ‘dream job’ after completing an IT training courseAround the time Tabasum Kouser moved to Ireland in 2015 with her three-year-old son and her husband, a software engineer, she became pregnant.
“First, I felt afraid to talk, because we are not native speakers – what will they feel if I talk? Will it be not nice? What will they think?” Kouser says. “They supported me all the time, they’re very lovely children, they never annoyed me, even as babies, I slept all night. My friends were telling me, ‘I’m not sleeping because of the kids’, and I felt like the luckiest one, I should not tell them,” Kouser laughs.
Generation Ireland is a global non-profit that provides free, short training courses for jobseekers. It operates in 17 countries and has placed over 100,000 graduates in relevant careers, with 78 per cent of graduates placed in a job within three months of programme completion.“It was amazing, I can’t describe in words. I learned technical skills, soft skills, transparency skills, many skills, the overall confidence I gained, it’s through Generation,” she says.
“I was passionate to work in Ireland, like I never worked before. Maybe I had that enthusiasm, I wanted to work, and my husband supported me a lot,” she says. “The first time I got here, my hands were shaking and I needed two blankets to warm myself,” she says. But that is the only real negative, she feels.“My country is a very lovely place, but I miss my family, I miss my neighbourhood, which I am lacking here, but somehow we are interacting with people and fulfilling that feeling through friends,” she says.
“My elder one says, ‘I don’t want to go back to India’, he loves Ireland, he misses friends. My younger one says ‘I love here, I love India as well because if we go to India, we don’t have to read anything’ because he thinks he is on vacation,” she laughs.
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