Mum in tears after reading WhatsApp message – Liverpool Echo

A Liverpool mum was in tears when she opened her phone and read a message on WhatsApp. Comfort Etim, 38, was kidnapped as a teenager and held against her will in the UK before going on to play football professionally for Tottenham Hotspur’s women’s team. On a two-week holiday to Liverpool from London in 2008, an elderly woman saying ‘You alright, love?’ as she arrived in Lime Street Station made her feel welcome in the midst of depression after initially being refused asylum. READ MORE:Man in disbelief as he’s chased into bank by stranger That two-week trip is still going thirteen years later, and Comfort’s son Ezekiel has since joined her. Eager to return to her love, Comfort started a football team made up mostly of refugee and asylum seeker women travelling from as far as Birkenhead and Widnes. Originally from Nigeria, where she played professionally, her own experience of the asylum system, and successfully coming out the other end, is the driving force behind the project. Comfort’s aim with the team is to “to empower them, to promote integration, to promote good health, and improve mental health” for women experiencing stress and anxiety in a “daunting” asylum system. She…
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