Kateryna arrived in Ireland with her son in March 2022. After living in a hotel for eight months, she now rents a hoem with her family.

Maura started hosting Yuliia and Dmytro in June 2023. Maura had experience hosting mature students and decided to offer up her granny flat.

Guests Natalya and Oleksandra spoke to Shamim at The Dublin Inquirer here.

Hosts Sorcha Woods and Evelyn Burns spoke to Shauna Bowers here.

We spoke to Sorcha Pollack in The Irish Times about our commitment to advocate for hosts and the guests in their homes here.

"The first day when she ran into this gym … She changed in front of my eyes in a second."