In this episode Manchán speaks with Feza form the Democratic Republic of Congo. Feza, is from Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where her mother, step-brothers and sisters still live. She has fond memories of ‘my grandmother who used to cook beans mixed with cassava leaves and we’d have it with rice, and of the wonderful smoked fish from Lake Kivu.’ She used to love swimming in the lake and going to visit Virunga National Park there the mountain gorillas live. 'We used to go in school holidays or on a Sunday. We’d organise a picnic. In the beginning seeing the gorillas was scary, but they are actually nice.' She hopes to return there, but ‘Up till now there is still violence. Women are being raped.’ She herself experienced some traumatic things, but now ‘in Ireland I have hope. Ireland has given me hope.’

Home Stories was funded by Creative Ireland alongside the county councils of Laois and Westmeath.