Direct provision income support not meeting basic needs
Marwa Zamir says she is glad she went though direct provision in 2016, rather than now because, she says: ‘I could never see myself being homeless and on the street’. Picture: Arthur Carron/Collins Photos
IN 2016, then-13-year-old Marwa Zamir travelled to Ireland with her mother and three younger siblings seeking asylum after an explosive device detonated next to their school in Kabul, Afghanistan.
She told the : “I remember repairing the windows so often because of the explosions happening nearby. They happened so often that I didn’t react anymore. It was like fireworks, the first one might scare you, but the second, third, fourth, it won’t affect you anymore.
