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Representatives from Abigsil Housing took part along with over 65 other people in the online NACCOM (The No Accommodation Network) AGM this afternoon. Great to hear about how NACCOM members across the country provided housing and/or support for over 3000 refugees and asylum seekers in the last year, how members have adapted to provide services during the COVID pandemic and campaigning to end destitution, the hostile environment and for a more humane asylum system. Thank you for all the support NACCOM! … See MoreSee Less

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3 days ago

Saied lived in our Refugee Project in Leeds for 3 years he recently moved out into his own flat. While he was living with us he passed his test to become an HGV driver and has been working full time as one since January. Since the pandemic started he’s been working long hours delivering essential items all over the country food but also supplies for the NHS. He’s told us how important he thinks it is everyone helps and supports each other during the COVID-`19 crisis, he is very pleased to play his part as an essential worker. It has been great for us to support Saied up to this point and to see him making such a positive contribution back to our society. Thank you Saied and all essential workers! … See MoreSee Less

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6 days ago

Given the current tightening of restrictions as the number of people testing positive for the virus increases it seems irresponsible to be making people homeless. Not just for the obvious humanitarian reasons for the individuals concerned but the potential risk to the whole community of increasing homelessness as numbers of people with the virus increases … See MoreSee Less

Home Office starts evicting asylum seekers despite warning of second wave

www.independent.co.uk

Exclusive: Charities and MPs say ‘reckless’ decision to suspend eviction ban for failed asylum seekers is ‘completely out of line’ with wider messaging from central government

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Abigail Housing

4 weeks ago

This is Sudanese poet Abdel Wahab Yousif. He was one of 45 people who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea a few days ago when their ship was shot at by a group of men and caught fire. Authorities from Libya, Malta and Italy were all called but no one came to their rescue.

His was one of four shipwrecks off the Libyan coast in just four days. One of four shipwrecks that the the Libyan Coast Guard, subsidised by the UK Government, failed to help. People are frequently imprisoned, abused, exploited and enslaved in Libya, and yet the EU has a policy to ‘push back’ to Libya asylum-seekers who are found at sea.

One who survived these shipwrecks, saved by local fishermen, said: "The Europeans let people drown and take them to Libya, because it is easy for them. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe what happened to us. We drowned and there was fire everywhere! Nobody came! Some ship could have saved us! But no one came."

As these numbers pile up so quickly we risk forgetting that bodies that wash ashore on a daily basis in the Mediterranean belong to real people. People with stories, hopes and dreams. Abdel was well known among young poets in Sudan. Despite his poor upbringing he managed to get a degree at the University of Khartoum but even that wasn’t enough to offer him a better life. He fled his home in desperate search of safety. But he knew of the dangers that lay ahead. In many ways, he predicted his own death at sea in one of his recent poems:

You’ll die at sea.
Your head rocked by the roaring waves,
your body swaying in the water,
like a perforated boat.
In the prime of youth you’ll go,
shy of your 30th birthday.
Departing early is not a bad idea;
but it surely is if you die alone,
with no woman calling you to her embrace:
“Let me hold you to my breast,
I have plenty of room.
Let me wash the dirt of misery off your soul.”

Rest in peace, Abdel. … See MoreSee Less

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Abigail Housing

1 month ago

A refugee’s story, good to see this published in London’s Evening Standard … See MoreSee Less

Refugees like me rarely get to tell our side

www.standard.co.uk

In my life, I’ve experienced vastly different cultures: the one I grew up with, and the one I fled to when war stole my homeland. This has taught me that everything has a narrative. The same story can be told in multiple ways. As we grow up, we learn to question the stories we’re told. As a Syri…

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