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Category Archives: Blog

GMIAU Crowdfunder 2020

Crowdfunder 2020: We did it!

Blog, Children, Hostile EnvironmentBy Denise McDowell11th January 2021

With the help of 123 wonderful donors, we met our £5,000 Crowdfunder target. Thank you!

GMIAU Caseworker, Isobel

The long journey to safety: getting an asylum decision

Blog, Children, Hostile EnvironmentBy Denise McDowell21st December 2020

The least children can ask is that they are believed and treated as children, not accused of lying about their age.

The long journey to safety: the age assessment process

Blog, Children, Hostile EnvironmentBy Denise McDowell18th December 2020

The least children can ask is that they are believed and treated as children, not accused of lying about their age.

The GMIAU Children’s Book Blog

BlogBy Denise McDowell11th December 2020

This year lots of us have used reading as a distraction from the world around us. For much of 2020 it’s been the only way to escape – to have adventures, leave our houses and meet new people. Over the summer we wrote about the books people at GMIAU have…

The long journey to safety: the importance of social workers

Blog, Children, Hostile EnvironmentBy Denise McDowell10th December 2020

This is part of our blog series about the journey taken and the barriers faced by children and young people who arrive alone in the UK to seek asylum. To help us continue our work with those young people, please support our Crowdfunder campaign. Our youth is formative. It’s the…

GMIAU Crowdfunder 2020

The long journey to safety: making friends in the UK

Blog, Children, Hostile EnvironmentBy Frank Gresslin3rd December 2020

This is part of our blog series about the journey taken and the barriers faced by children and young people who arrive alone in the UK to seek asylum. To help us continue our work with those young people, please support our Crowdfunder campaign. Every child deserves to play safely…

GMIAU Crowdfunder 2020

The long journey to safety: arrival in the UK

Blog, Children, Hostile EnvironmentBy Frank Gresslin26th November 2020

The image exists in everyone’s mind – the rickety boats; the churning water; life-jacketed people; hopeful eyes searching for safety. Young people we support make this perilous journey across the channel on their own. But what is waiting for them once they reach land?

GMIAU Crowdfunder 2020

We’re Crowdfunding!

Blog, Children, Hostile EnvironmentBy Frank Gresslin22nd November 2020

We’ve launched a campaign with support from Crowdfunder, based around our work with children and young people. We’d love it if you could support us.  Young people seeking asylum in Greater Manchester need our help more than ever. We’re currently supporting around 200 children – that’s a quarter of our…

Anwar Ditta

What we can learn from Anwar Ditta in 2020

Blog, Hostile EnvironmentBy Frank Gresslin20th November 2020

This month, Anwar Ditta featured on the Tell A Friend podcast, interviewed by Bryan Knight. It was a chance to hear an incredibly important story. Along with the Viraj Mendis Defence Campaign and others, Anwar’s campaign to be reunited with her children – who were born in Pakistan, while Anwar had been born in the UK – created the backdrop and momentum behind the setting up of GMIAU.

Defend the NHS as a service for all!

Defend the NHS as a service for all

Blog, Hostile EnvironmentBy Frank Gresslin27th October 2020

From the 27th of October 2020 the Immigration Health Surcharge will increase from £400 to £624 per year. This price hike is unjust in the face of an economically destabilising pandemic, but is perfectly in step with the Home Office’s increasingly iniquitous attitude towards migrant healthcare. Although the Immigration Health…

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