My name is Leah. I have been here with Betonne Jeugd for about 11 or 12 years. First I came here with my former boyfriend. He was one of the first youngsters of Betonne Jeugd, he stayed for about 5 years and he brought me along. Then we broke up and he stopped coming, but…
”My name is Karina Nys, 58 years old. I am from Belgium and live in Borgerhout. My whole life, I’ve lived in Antwerp. It’s very difficult to live alone, it’s like you are talking to walls. In the wintertime it was dark outside, sometimes I didn’t even want to get out of my bed, nobody…
“I was born in Morocco, as the youngest. All of my siblings were born in Belgium, but my parents went back to Morocco where they had me. Shortly afterward my mother took my brothers and sisters to Belgium, while my father and I stayed behind. He died when I was 16 years old, and then…
