Asylum Welcome supports refugees, asylum seekers and immigration detainees in Oxford and Oxfordshire.
Our volunteers, members, supporters and staff share values based on a common humanity and social justice. Together, we work to reduce poverty, suffering and social isolation, and to enable asylum seekers and refugees to live with the respect and dignity to which they are entitled.
News:
Abused, humiliated and abandoned. What really happens when the UK deports failed asylum-seekers
The Independent has put together details of the process, by which asylum seekers are removed from the UK.
Independent, 5 July 2010
However, behind the bald figures are real people such as Mohammad Razai, whose astounding journey from Kabul to Cambridge is a tale of triumph over overwhelming odds
Observer, 20 June 2010
From 11 - 25 September Asylum Welcome will be collecting food donations at the Headington Co-op on London Road. Look out for our box and notice board inside the store. All donations will be gratefully received and will be distributed to asylum seekers in Oxford via the Asylum Welcome Food Project. At other times donations can be delivered to the Asylum Welcome office.
Take Action:
Let Them Work is a joint campaign calling on the government to let asylum seekers work. Currently asylum seekers are prevented from working and forced to rely on benefits or face destitution. Find out more and sign the pledge here.
Urgently needed: cooking oil, rice, sugar, UHT milk, tea, coffee, toothpaste, disposable razors and more for our Food Cupboard for destitute clients.
“As an asylum seeker here you have no identity; you are always waiting. I want to be recognised as belonging; to be able to make my contribution.”Najaf, asylum seeker from Afghanistan