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Category: Refugee Stories

Afghan stories

An audience of 80 recently heard about the experiences of Afghan asylum seekers and refugees living in Bournemouth. Two workers from the International Care Network, a charity supporting refugees and
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Missing migrant children

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jslt   BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 has featured an excellent investigation into the 200 migrant children who have gone missing from government-run hotels. 136 have vanished from one
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UK government’s poor treatment of refugees continues to shock

Tens of thousands of refugees are waiting for more than a year for a decision on their asylum claim, with hundreds waiting more than five years, according Home Office data
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An Evening of Afghan Stories

You are invited to An evening of Afghan Stories, hosted by Safe Passage and the International Care Network (ICN) Local resettled Afghans share their stories of escape after the fall of
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Vital support for refugees and asylum seekers at schools and universities

Diwa came to the UK from Afghanistan when she was 16. “My teachers were very nice and kind to me,” she recalls, “but the teaching style is very different here.
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Home Office accused of “catastrophic failure” to protect child asylum seekers

Ministers have admitted that they have no idea where 222 vulnerable, unaccompanied refugee children have gone, after they disappeared from Home Office-approved hotel accommodation. Seventeen vanished within a day of
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Desert Island discs with former Afghan refugee, Dr Waheed Arian

Radiologist Dr Waheed Arian spoke movingly about his experiences as a former Afghan refugee on Desert Island Discs. He arrived as a 15 year-old asylum seeker and was initially confined
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Kindertransport statue commemorates arrival of Jewish child refugees in Harwich

“It saved my life,” explained Bob Kirk, 97, who arrived in Harwich from Germany aged 13 in May 1939. “It gave me the possibility of a new life and a
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Crowborough welcomes Ukrainian refugees

This small East Sussex town is hosting more than 50 Ukranian  refugees. There’s a pop-up café run by the local church, free English classes, and a Facebook group with 401
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10,000 Afghan refugees still living in hotels

Around 10,00 Afghan refugees are still living in hotels, according to a BBC Newsnight investigation.   100 Afghans are being accommodated in a hotel with leaking rooms and poor standards
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