“It’s not so difficult not having the electricity for housework, but it is difficult that my children have been in the dark for the past six months. I should be a good mother, I should take care of them and help them.”
Concerned about the circumstances in which she lives together with her husband and six children, five sons and one daughter, Sarbera describes the everyday life of her family. The oldest son is fourteen, and the youngest, sitting next to her, is five. Regardless of the fact that Sarbera and her husband wanted to start a new life in Germany, one day, they were taken out of their home and returned to Crvena Zvezda neighborhood in Niš. The life of this family, the education of her children, the employment of her husband, everything abruptly ended in 2014. Since then, Sarbera has been trying to organize the life of her family in Niš. Her husband provides for the family by collecting scraped material, while their children regularly attend school and participate in project activities carried out by the Community Center Indigo, REF partner organization.
“We were not hungry there. Children went to school and my husband had a job. I was a good mother. It is hard for me to manage here. But I am trying very hard. I am really giving my best. I take them to additional classes of Serbian language, I take them to the Toy library at the Community Center, but I cannot make it every day. In a word, everything was better in Germany…“
Her youngest son Martin carefully listened to his mother while she was talking, and then briefly described his day in Crvena Zvezda neighborhood in Niš.
“I was born here. It is nice. The only thing I regret is the fact that I cannot watch cartoons. Sometimes my mother takes me to the Toy library, so I can play and watch TV there. I do not like it when I have to go to bed early. However, the morning comes quickly, and then I can go outside and play with my friends.”
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