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

Nastya and Vlad Slyvka, with host family Aimee, Jennie, Paul and Elsie Kirwan, via Rory O’Carroll 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."