Ahead of Refugee Week, local charity, Connection Support, launches new campaign to highlight the hardship and suffering many individuals and families go through when being forcibly displaced from their homes. Many of us will never know what it feels like to live in a place of war, conflict, or persecution, desperately hoping for a brighter … Read more
I wasn’t in my country before coming to the UK. My daughters and I were in a different country going through harsh conditions and pressure. Our lives were all misery and sadness, there was nothing joyful in it, we suffered a lot. I didn’t know what would happen to us. When I heard that my … Read more
When I come to Oxford in 2019, I didn’t have anyone. I was sleeping in the road, the park. Some Kurdish people, from my country, they live here. Same culture, so they help. They give me food. One week I sleep there, one week another place. One guy said to me, ‘Go to Asylum Welcome. … Read more
The NRPF project is designed to help people with ‘no recourse to public funds’. Those individuals are typically at the bottom of the pile, when it comes to accessing services. Covid kind of changed everything. During the pandemic, the Government had a scheme called ‘Everyone In’, which included this group. That raised a lot of … Read more