{"id":71004,"date":"2025-09-18T06:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71004\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:07:19","slug":"each-day-was-a-battle-when-i-was-homeless-now-we-can-breathe-again-mum-praises-depaul-for-help-in-turning-her-life-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/71004\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Each day was a battle when I was homeless, now we can breathe again\u2019: Mum praises Depaul for help in turning her life around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Brazilian mother of young boy found herself without a roof over her head after years in the country \u2013 but has since turned it around&#8230;with a little help\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brazilian woman Flavia came to Ireland to study English but soon found herself homeless with a young child. Photo: Andrew Conan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025_09_16_11_49_29.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brazilian woman Flavia came to Ireland to study English but soon found herself homeless with a young child. Photo: Andrew Conan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A mother who found herself and her young child homeless after arriving in Ireland has described the situation as a \u201cfrightening battle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Impact Report for the Depaul charity yesterday revealed it supported 9,836 people across the island of Ireland in 2024 \u2013 7,412 adults and 2,424 children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazilian mother of young boy found herself without a roof over her head after years in the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,10471,10472,13,14,6,3847,8752,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-71004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-budget-2026","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-housing-crisis","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}