Crowdfunder 2020: We did it!
With the help of 123 wonderful donors, we met our £5,000 Crowdfunder target. Thank you!
With the help of 123 wonderful donors, we met our £5,000 Crowdfunder target. Thank you!
The least children can ask is that they are believed and treated as children, not accused of lying about their age.
The least children can ask is that they are believed and treated as children, not accused of lying about their age.
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…
Today, leaders from Greater Manchester Combined Authority have issued an open statement expressing “profound concern” about the possibility of people seeking asylum being evicted from their accommodation. You can read their full statement here. In it, they say “…the reality for many is homelessness and destitution. The timing of this…
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 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’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…
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.
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…