This year we spoke to women with lived experience of migration and or forced displacement who work in the charity sector and help others who have been in similar situations.
For International Women’s Day 2022, we talk to Alphonsine Kabagabo, the Director of Women for Refugee Women, an organisation that advocates for and empowers women refugees.
Marianna Solodcaia moved to Walsall from Moldova six years ago and threw herself in her local community, volunteering and taking English classes. She also founded the Vera Group, a support group for women with Eastern European backgrounds.
The Celebrating Friendship series for Refugee Week 2021 tells the stories of friendships formed between people seeking safety in the UK, and those who welcomed them.
It’s been grim reading with newspaper headlines predicting ‘Windrush on steroids’ with concerns about vulnerable groups at risk of losing their right to remain in the UK and forced into the hostile environment overnight. So, let's investigate what we should be watching out for come the 1 July…
While fundamentally, we are all on the same side, we have a wide range of views and policy aims that don’t always sit comfortably together. This means building consensus can be hard and that is okay.
