Description of the integration initiative implemented
The interviewee comes from Ghana, in the city of Accra, specifically Kumasi, and is a Christian. Her ethnicity is "Asint". She is 31 years old, English-speaking; her father died when she was 16 years old. She has two younger brothers who are older than her. Both live outside the family home, and support their mother in the country of origin.
She has 4 children, two in the country of origin, the result of a forced marriage when she was 16 years old. Since this marriage, she has suffered gender-based violence, including against her two children aged 16 and 11.
In Ghana, she lived with her husband and two children. Her husband worked as a truck driver and she did housework and childcare.
After their marriage, they moved in with her father's family. During this time she suffered humiliation and was treated badly, so they decided to move house because of this bad relationship. After many years of suffering, in September 2018, she decided to leave the country alone, leaving her two children in her mother's care.
She says she flew from Ghana to Casablanca, Morocco. From there she travelled by car to Tangier where she stayed for three months. She says that in Tangiers she was unable to find work and was forced to live on the streets. Afterwards, she went to Nador, where she spent a month until 14 January 2019, when she left in a zodiac. She met Sin Fronteras. She paid nothing for the zodiac, she refers that she was pregnant and they helped her.
Since arriving in Spain, the religious element is important to her. She says she is a Christian.
Both in the Ödos Centre in Montilla and in San Sebastian, she is given access to a Christian community, where she establishes links with several people from those places.
An important moment for her was the baptism of her children in the parish of La Rambla, Montilla, where she attends weekly mass with some nuns and other people from the parish. The godparents of her children are a local neighbour, whom she met through the Christian community, and the director of the Centre Ödos. She is grateful for this.
She wants to get her documents, legalise her situation and be able to look for a future in Spain.
She is in permanent contact with her mother and children back home.
Her aim is to be able to have a normalised life in Spain with her children, to have access to a job, and for her children to grow up safely and with every opportunity.
She feels grateful, as she says that here she never lacks food, and she has a lot of support.

Personal story
The interviewee comes from Ghana, in the city of Accra, specifically Kumasi, and is a Christian. Her ethnicity is "Asint". She is 31 years old, English-speaking; her father died when she was 16 years old. She has two younger brothers who are older than her. Both live outside the family home, and support their mother in the country of origin.
She has 4 children, two in the country of origin, the result of a forced marriage when she was 16 years old. Since this marriage, she has suffered gender-based violence, including against her two children aged 16 and 11.
In Ghana, she lived with her husband and two children. Her husband worked as a truck driver and she did housework and childcare.
After their marriage, they moved in with her father's family. During this time she suffered humiliation and was treated badly, so they decided to move house because of this bad relationship. After many years of suffering, in September 2018, she decided to leave the country alone, leaving her two children in her mother's care.
She says she flew from Ghana to Casablanca, Morocco. From there she travelled by car to Tangier where she stayed for three months. She says that in Tangiers she was unable to find work and was forced to live on the streets. Afterwards, she went to Nador, where she spent a month until 14 January 2019, when she left in a zodiac. She met Sin Fronteras. She paid nothing for the zodiac, she refers that she was pregnant and they helped her.
Since arriving in Spain, the religious element is important to her. She says she is a Christian.
Both in the Ödos Centre in Montilla and in San Sebastian, she is given access to a Christian community, where she establishes links with several people from those places.
An important moment for her was the baptism of her children in the parish of La Rambla, Montilla, where she attends weekly mass with some nuns and other people from the parish. The godparents of her children are a local neighbour, whom she met through the Christian community, and the director of the Centre Ödos. She is grateful for this.
She wants to get her documents, legalise her situation and be able to look for a future in Spain.
She is in permanent contact with her mother and children back home.
Her aim is to be able to have a normalised life in Spain with her children, to have access to a job, and for her children to grow up safely and with every opportunity.
She feels grateful, as she says that here she never lacks food, and she has a lot of support.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
The main initiatives to improve integration have been:

LEGAL AREA:
- The process has been difficult, as she has been refused asylum, and she is a year and a half after her irregular arrival. She did not have much support in the asylum case, it was reduced to the interview with the national police.
- She is now in the process of applying for a residence and work permit, awaiting its resolution.

RESOURCES AND SUPPORT
- The entities that have assisted her are key to her integration process, depending on them in every way.
- They provide her with language skills, vocational training classes, schooling for the children, financial support and comprehensive reception.

NETWORKS AND PARTICIPATION
- Her main network is her host organisation, currently the Sisters of San Sebastian, with whom she lives, the Slaves, and the assistance of the Miriam Project of Caritas Donosti, which has put her in contact with other women in a similar vulnerable situation.
- The religious dimension is also very important for her, and she has easy access to the parish and to contact with other people.

CULTURAL IDENTITY
- She maintains contact mainly with her mother, and her family in her country of origin, as well as the way of cooking in her own country. He is particularly keen to meet people from his own country, with whom he establishes immediate friendships.
- At the same time, he assimilates and accepts the behavioural rules of Spain, and adapts easily. Accepts and adapts easily to Spanish timetables and meals.

RESILIENCE STRATEGIES
- Great capacity to adapt to new situations, always in a good mood and grateful at all times, as she is aware of the complexity of her situation with two young children and without her own resources or family networks.
- She values very much all the help she has received, without making any complaints and always cooperating with whatever is suggested to her, she is extrovert when talking about her migratory history, which has hard episodes, but she does not relate it with drama.
- She is looking forward to her new life.

Results and Impact
For the interviewee, the degree of protection she has felt since accessing the shelters is important, as well as the comprehensive support for both herself and her children. She values the peace of mind with which she now lives and the trust and bond generated by the people who are helping her. She comments that in Spain women have more opportunities to be autonomous, to be able to train, to have their own work and even to live without depending on a man, which is something she values very much.
She is excited about the future that her children can have here, with freedom and a good education.