One of those side entrants is Margret Dau (47) from Zwaag. She was born in Sudan and came to the Netherlands in the late 1990s. In her home country it was war and she was not sure her life. “I would go to university, but knew that I would be called up for military service. I didn’t want that. Many peers did not come back alive anymore.”
From care to supermarket and back to care
“I was lucky that I could come to the Netherlands. I am very grateful to God for this.” Once in the Netherlands she took a job in home care. “I read in the newspaper that Omring was looking for people. You had to go to school for one day and the rest of the week you went to work as a helping A. I called and was hired right away.”
After about ten or twelve, she was forced to stop work. Earlier she had decided not to continue studying. The work and the study could no longer be combined with her family. “My partner was already running alternating services; I couldn’t do that either.”
She then went to work as a production employee at Supermarket Deen. “I worked there until 2 pm. So I was able to bring the children and get it to and from school.” But after stopping Deen, Margret decides to return to healthcare.