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Fishing. A video diary from Oruchinga Refugee Camp, Uganda

young refugee living in the Oruchinga Refugee Camp fishing

A young refugee living in the Oruchinga Refugee Camp in Uganda talks about how COVID-19 has impacted his life. He discusses how his brother can no longer study and explains that they have turned to fishing in order to eat.

30th November 2023

Aspen Card Scandal

a hand on a purse

In May 2021 the UK Home Office rolled out the Aspen Card program. Aspen Card is a card that asylum-seekers could use to access their £ 37 a week allowance to live off. The card was designed to make the financial support payments easier.

30th November 2023

Tara’s Life and Death

Tara's life and death

Tara’s story, recounted by her mother Joanie, offers a heart-breaking chronicle of events leading up to Tara’s death on 9th February 2021.

30th November 2023

Corona Days in Swansea

Corona Days in Swansea

In this moving and lively conversation, in the Dari language, an Afghan couple, asylum-seekers living in Swansea, talk about their experiences of Covid Days.

30th November 2023

Photographs during the Lockdown year in Sheffield

Ibtisam in Sheffield during lockdown

Ibtisam Al-Farah was born in Yemen and has been in Sheffield since December 2004. She is an activist woman, believing in women’s rights – every woman, everywhere.

30th November 2023

Nightmare in Carmarthen

Nightmare in Carmarthen

In this poignant video Shahbas an 18-year-old asylum seeker describes how while preparing for Eid celebrations on 8th May 2021 at his friend’s house in Carmarthen, he was attacked with a knife and beaten up by intruders unknown to him.

30th November 2023

3 Venezuelan Girls, by Alba Hernandez

Venezuelan Girl

3 Venezuelan Girls, by Alba Hernandez

30th November 2023

Lonely Streets

Syrian refugees living in Malaysia

A poem for time of the plague, created by Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, this beautiful film of lonely streets under lockdown is framed around Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar’s poem to ‘Mother Earth’.

30th November 2023

Welcoming a baby during Covid-19

big hand holding new-born baby hand

In this deeply personal video, a couple shares their experience of having a baby during the height of the pandemic.

29th November 2023

Alejandro in Argentina

Alejandro and partner in Argentina

Alejandro and his partner fled from Venezuela two years ago and sought asylum in Argentina. Since then, they have lived as a family; a family who are very proud to be a gay couple in a culture that is not very tolerant.

29th November 2023

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