Crowdfunder 2020: We did it!
With the help of 123 wonderful donors, we met our £5,000 Crowdfunder target. Thank you!
The long journey to safety: getting an asylum decision
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
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
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
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…
The long journey to safety: making friends in the UK
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…
The long journey to safety: arrival in the UK
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?
We’re Crowdfunding!
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…
What we can learn from Anwar Ditta in 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
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…