Newly Arrived Asylum Seekers Need Your Help
United Kingdom
A bit of context
New asylum seekers to Glasgow are being housed in an old hotel in the city centre. It can be several months or a few weeks before they are moved to accommodation in the community. During that time, they often have no shoes or rainwear, no phone and very little or inappropriate clothing. They also have little or no knowledge of where they can get support. Many are suffering from the effects of trauma because of what they have been through. Whilst their claim is being processed, they have no money to buy basic items for themselves or their children.
How you can help
By giving a donation you can help provide supplies for babies and children, clothes, shoes, food, phones and data and the ability for our volunteers to support asylum seekers. Your contribution will make a huge difference to newly arrived asylum seekers, and allows for the freedom and dignity of choice where both are severely limited. We must support and help integrate New Scots fleeing war and persecution.
Where your donation will go
Your donations will directly help new arrivals in the hotel in Glasgow, which we will use to provide:
Who we are
Community InfoSource (CIS) W-ASH Project currently provides a Drop In, once a week at the hotel where newly arrived asylum seekers are housed. We are experts in the field of asylum issues and are also volunteers with language skills and lived experience. CIS is raising funds in order to provide essentials directly to new arrivals, which will allow them to adapt to life in this new city.
As part of our outreach work, we also provide signposting and information, directing people to the services that can best support them. As many of you reading this will know, the Hostile Environment and new UK laws means that, tragically, the struggle is not over for asylum seekers when they arrive here, despite what they have already been through.
A bit of background
Conditions in hotel and barrack accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK is notoriously bad, with little to no basic support and restrictions on freedoms for some people accommodated. There have been at least 2 tragic deaths in asylum hotel accommodation in Glasgow alone since the start of the pandemic: Adnan Elbi and Badreddin Abdallah Adam. Despite calls from the third sector to #EndHotelDetention, little appears to have been done by the accommodation providers, nor the Home Office to improve conditions for New Scots housed in hotel accommodation. It is still extremely hard for asylum seekers living in hotel accommodation to cope, and they are vulnerable to exploitation.
Please watch this BBC Disclosure documentary “Desperately Seeking Asylum” which Shafiq Mohamed, our previous W-ASH Caseworker contributed significantly to in June 2021, to see what life for new asylum seekers in Glasgow is like:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000x4lv/disclosure-series-4-1-desperately-seeking-asylum (coming back soon!)
It can be very hard to access grant funding to support asylum seekers with material things such as shoes and other clothing, smart phones and data etc. During and immediately after the Covid 19 pandemic, additional emergency funding sources allowed us to continue this work, but these have and are now ending and accessing funds is becoming increasingly difficult once again. Your contribution will make all the difference to newly arrived asylum seekers, and allows for the freedom and dignity of choice where both are severely limited.
In Memory of Shafiq
CIS set up this collection in memory of our fearless, brilliant caseworker Shafiq Mohammed, who died suddenly in September 2021. He spearheaded the outreach in Glasgow asylum seeker hotels over the Covid-19 crisis, bringing much-needed support and advice to people at a time when accessing any other support was extremely difficult. Shafiq had worked with asylum seekers and refugees for over 25 years. He was unyielding in his pursuit of better conditions and more rights for all. He is dearly missed and we hope that you will support us to continue this work in his memory.
www.infosource.org.uk
Samson Adeolu Bisiriyu
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United Kingdom
A bit of context
New asylum seekers to Glasgow are being housed in an old hotel in the city centre. It can be several months or a few weeks before they are moved to accommodation in the community. During that time, they often have no shoes or rainwear, no phone and very little or inappropriate clothing. They also have little or no knowledge of where they can get support. Many are suffering from the effects of trauma because of what they have been through. Whilst their claim is being processed, they have no money to buy basic items for themselves or their children.
How you can help
By giving a donation you can help provide supplies for babies and children, clothes, shoes, food, phones and data and the ability for our volunteers to support asylum seekers. Your contribution will make a huge difference to newly arrived asylum seekers, and allows for the freedom and dignity of choice where both are severely limited. We must support and help integrate New Scots fleeing war and persecution.
Where your donation will go
Your donations will directly help new arrivals in the hotel in Glasgow, which we will use to provide:
Who we are
Community InfoSource (CIS) W-ASH Project currently provides a Drop In, once a week at the hotel where newly arrived asylum seekers are housed. We are experts in the field of asylum issues and are also volunteers with language skills and lived experience. CIS is raising funds in order to provide essentials directly to new arrivals, which will allow them to adapt to life in this new city.
As part of our outreach work, we also provide signposting and information, directing people to the services that can best support them. As many of you reading this will know, the Hostile Environment and new UK laws means that, tragically, the struggle is not over for asylum seekers when they arrive here, despite what they have already been through.
A bit of background
Conditions in hotel and barrack accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK is notoriously bad, with little to no basic support and restrictions on freedoms for some people accommodated. There have been at least 2 tragic deaths in asylum hotel accommodation in Glasgow alone since the start of the pandemic: Adnan Elbi and Badreddin Abdallah Adam. Despite calls from the third sector to #EndHotelDetention, little appears to have been done by the accommodation providers, nor the Home Office to improve conditions for New Scots housed in hotel accommodation. It is still extremely hard for asylum seekers living in hotel accommodation to cope, and they are vulnerable to exploitation.
Please watch this BBC Disclosure documentary “Desperately Seeking Asylum” which Shafiq Mohamed, our previous W-ASH Caseworker contributed significantly to in June 2021, to see what life for new asylum seekers in Glasgow is like:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000x4lv/disclosure-series-4-1-desperately-seeking-asylum (coming back soon!)
It can be very hard to access grant funding to support asylum seekers with material things such as shoes and other clothing, smart phones and data etc. During and immediately after the Covid 19 pandemic, additional emergency funding sources allowed us to continue this work, but these have and are now ending and accessing funds is becoming increasingly difficult once again. Your contribution will make all the difference to newly arrived asylum seekers, and allows for the freedom and dignity of choice where both are severely limited.
In Memory of Shafiq
CIS set up this collection in memory of our fearless, brilliant caseworker Shafiq Mohammed, who died suddenly in September 2021. He spearheaded the outreach in Glasgow asylum seeker hotels over the Covid-19 crisis, bringing much-needed support and advice to people at a time when accessing any other support was extremely difficult. Shafiq had worked with asylum seekers and refugees for over 25 years. He was unyielding in his pursuit of better conditions and more rights for all. He is dearly missed and we hope that you will support us to continue this work in his memory.
www.infosource.org.uk
Samson Adeolu Bisiriyu
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