During 1991 – 2001, I was mostly working as a social worker in Muurame and then later on in City of Jyväskylä. In 1992, Muurame received 15 Kurdish people and in the autumn of 1990, the first groups from Iran came to Jyväskylä. At first, our office in town was called Refugee Office, then it was Immigrant Office and nowadays the same office is called Immigrant Services. The change of the name indicates how at the beginning, the customers were only refugees that had moved to Jyväskylä, but later on, there were also other immigrants.
Wewe umekuta bwana wako miaka nne iliopita na ndani ya hii mwaka umawahi kufunga ndoo, kupata mtoto na kuhama Finland. Mabadiliko haya yote ni mambo makubwa katika ndani ya muda mfupi na inachukua uzoefu sana. Wewe hukueleza kama Wewe una wajamaa walioweza kusaidia katika maisha ya kila siku na maisha yako ya kuona marafiki yako ilivyo. Kitu cha kwanza ilio kuja kichwani yangu ni kwamba si vizuri kama uko na mtoto wako pekeyako nyumbani na unahitaji kuona marafiki na kupata kuongea labda na wengine walio na mantiki ya maisha kama wewe. Tuseme kwa mfano mafamilia kutoka utamaduni mbali mbali wapi kuna watoto na mama pia.