On 15th July 2021, members of Refugee Women Connect joined with the socialist choir to sing in the streets of Liverpool against deportation, detention, and immigration reporting.
As lockdown started to wind down, a women’s support group in Swansea, Wales (UK), started beginning activities again for local asylum seekers and refugees.
In this conversation Funmilayo describes her journey from asylum seeker to law student with a sanctuary scholarship, as part of the Improving Access to Higher Education and Employment conference that took place in July 2021.
In this moving film produced exclusively for the Covid Chronicles: From the Margins project, Aline shares her story. Aline is a mother, wife and a tailor. She is also a refugee from Burundi living in Kampala, Uganda.
This film was produced exclusively for the Cov19 Chronicles from the Margins project by Daniel Kavimba, the founder of NURU, a youth organisation in Uganda that supports refugees.
Reg Meuross is an English singer and songwriter based in Somerset, UK. He produced this beautiful contribution to the Cov19 Chronicles from the Margins project after being inspired by the story of one of our project researchers.
Arriving in the UK as a refugee when she was 15, Nusaiba Abubaker now works for the NHS. She is passionate about social justice and particularly about women’s independence.
In 2019, just before lockdown, Zimbabwean refugee Israel Ncube, returned to his primary school in Matebeleland North, taking footballs as a small gift.