When 32-year-old Charlene Maitha left Kenya in 2018 to go to Belgium, she thought it would be a temporary move for studies. Today, she has settled in Antwerp, Belgium, working as a consultant at Deloitte and sharing her life with her partner. Her story is one of adjustment and learning to fit into two worlds at the same time.
Charlene initially visited Belgium on the Erasmus Mundus programme, a European Commission-sponsored initiative which takes students between three universities in three countries.