Description of the integration initiative implemented
The most important aspects to take into account for their integration are:
- Not having a family network either at destination or at origin to help them. The fact that they are not with their children makes them think about their personal and family well-being.
- The time she stays in the entity, she receives information about her rights and possibilities.
- Support network established with the members of the entities in which she is a user.
- Informal support network established among the people she interacts with in work and training.

Personal story
She made the journey by bus and car, which lasted about 18 months, and was initially helped to leave her town by a driver she knew, travelling to Niger, Algeria and then Morocco. In the latter, she was in Nador for 9 months, where she met her current partner. He helps her to cross with her children, first he and one of his children cross with him and a week later she crosses with the other.
She arrived on the Andalusian coast in September 2018. She goes through several organisations until she arrives at the Ödos centre in May 2021. Here, she works on her own autonomy, the link with her children and is made aware of her rights and possibilities. Weekly visits are made to the children's centre where the children are, after the interviewee was withdrawn during a mental breakdown, from which she shows daily her recovery and motivation to return to her normal life. Both she and her children show harmony and complicity in their visits, thus creating an affective growth.
She currently maintains relationships at the centre with her peers and with people of the same nationality and culture.
She stresses that in Spain people have more freedoms than in Ivory Coast, commenting that there, above all, women have no rights whatsoever. She indicates that she does not want to return to her country because of everything that has happened there, and only wants her eldest son to be reunited with her.
She says that she wants to stay in Spain forever because of the treatment she has received despite the language barrier.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
The main initiatives for their integration have been

Legal sphere:
- They have recognition of refugee status, with work permits.

Resources and support:
- Associations have been and are key in their integration process.
- The network of support established through the contacts created with their stays in the different entities and the possibility of accessing training and jobs.

Networks and participation:
- Formal and informal networks facilitated by the first reception resource.
- Maintenance of social relations with women from the same culture.

Cultural identity:
- Maintenance of cultural practices guided by faith.
- Adaptation to new cultural practices in Spain.

Resilience strategies:
- Ability to leave suffering behind and focus on the present moment as well as on the better future she will be able to provide for her family.

Results and Impact
The woman recognises that her life has changed for the better, since here she has rights and freedoms that were unfeasible in her country.

She indicates that being in Spain has given her peace of mind, as she has a security that she did not have at home and with the dream of recovering her children as soon as possible, in order to provide them with a better future than the one they would have had, with an adequate education regardless of their level of purchasing power.