Mr. Geronimo Alves De Oliveira:

I thank the committee for the opportunity to speak. I came here as a student studying for a degree. My experience has been that it is quite impossible to make money to pay my bills, my rent and my college fees, which were €4,500. Sometimes one gets a position working 20 hours. Sometimes I worry about saving money and how to pay for everything I came here to do, even to learn English. Sometimes when I am learning English in class, I am thinking about whether I should get what I need. In the pandemic, I had to try to get some money, not just from the Government. The Spanish made working 30 hours possible for students. The 30 hours made people a little bit more confident to do whatever they need to do.