{"id":75470,"date":"2025-04-26T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=75470"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:54:11","slug":"juggling-family-and-work","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/work\/juggling-family-and-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Juggling family and work: working, being a mother, staying human"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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A degree, a job and four daughters \u2013 Dalila has combined what seemed impossible. One special source of support kept her going again and again.
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Dalila couldn\u2019t have finished her degree on her own.<\/strong> She couldn\u2019t have raised her daughters alone or done the work she now loves so much. The daughter of Tunisian migrants and mother of four daughters, she is now deputy head of a residential youth welfare facility for young refugee men. When she became pregnant at 22, in the first year of her degree, her parents and siblings supported her unconditionally wherever they could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalila grew up in Gr\u00f6pelingen, a deprived district of Bremen. Her surroundings were strongly shaped by her parents\u2019 origins. \u2018Most of the people we knew were workers from Tunisia. Like my father, they were migrants who came to Germany to work and then brought their wives and children over,\u2019 says the 48-year-old. \u2018In our area everyone knew each other somehow. There was even a Tunisian club where the men met almost every day.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n

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