We regularly see stories about the participants of Alabuga Start. Girls from Africa, Asia, and Latin America talk about work, adaptation in Russia, the language barrier, the weather, and also about how they miss their families. Usually, they fly home on vacation themselves. But this time, a participant’s mother came to visit her.
Atouma Marie flew to Russia, where the special economic zone Alabuga is located. Her daughter, 21-year-old Essaga, has been working in the programme for a year now. The mother of the Alabuga Start participant spoke about what a parent feels when letting their child go thousands of kilometers into the unknown. And what happens when a mother finally sees how and where her daughter lives.
“Why not?” – how a mother agreed to let her daughter go to Russia
Atouma Marie is an entrepreneur from Cameroon and a person with an open outlook on the world. Russia
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