They have flowers and flowers all around the house.A mother of five boys lives in this house. On Mondays, she gets up early and leaves the home. Luckily there is also her mother to watch the boys during the week. She doesn't come back home before late Friday evening.
We visited this family last Saturday together with their friends from Sweden Britt-Marie Nyberg and her daughter Anette. The miserable house was warm and clean, and the children were playful and friendly. Only the adults there were all too uncertain about the future that awaits them.
Britt-Marie and Anette have been supporting this family with some monthly amount of money, quarterly shipments of food and clothes. They are really grateful for this support. Yet it does not solve all of their problems.
Working in a Maxima shop in Riga, the Mother earns $ 500 a month. In August, she spent more than $ 600 to equip the children for the school.
Her friends are long since gone to Ireland. They write letters and tell about the life there. The right balance between work and leisure, social security and predictable governance are the main benefits they always mention.
I believe it's just a matter of time that the Mother will be away from her flowers, house and the country that does not give her any space for breathing. I believe that she will have those flower-beds also there in that foreign land. But there, they will certainly be in front of a much nicer house.
Will she come back? Will her children ever come back? Will they still have then a country to come back?
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