Alicja's jobs in Poland included working in a shop, a furniture factory and a tomato greenhouse. She first came to the Netherlands via one of her daughters, who had been living here for eight years. While it started with just a holiday, for the past eighteen months, she has been working and living in the Netherlands via abflexkracht. Alicja makes use of the housing abflexkracht provides. She currently lives in an abflexkracht house, where she also acts as caretaker.
“I've lived in different places in the Netherlands. Since February 2018, I've been living with my boyfriend and six other Polish colleagues in Burgerveen, in this house owned by abflexkracht. My friend says I act like a mother hen,” says Alicja, beaming with pride. “Now that my daughters don't need me to take care of them any more, I take care of the people I live with instead. We share this house with good, kind people; I like to think of us as one big family.”