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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: Family Reunification - Nathalie's Story
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Family Reunification - Nathalie's Story. Like many asylum seekers and refugees, Nathalie fled her country in a hurry, having not seen her husband and young children for months. She had no idea where they were or whether they were still alive, but she worried about them for hours every day, especially her baby who was only a few months old when Nathalie was taken away to a prison and tortured and raped. It was many more weeks before the priest managed to arrange a time when Nathalie’s husband and ch...
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: Asylum Seekers and the Law
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Asylum Seekers and the Law. Click on the small triangle to view short film clip. Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution. Solace is a charity based in Leeds (UK) which provides counselling and psychotherapy to asylum seekers and refugees in the Yorkshire and Humber region of the UK. View my complete profile. Click on the icon above to go to our main website. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: Motherland and England
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I was rooted in the huts of the Dark Continent,. Cheap dirty politics a course for rooting. Democracy, decomposing, degrading. People incubating poverty, possessiveness. Other belching, boosting, balancing. Justice shattered, in shambles. Justice swept by storm. I remember, I remember. In the huts of the Dark Continent. I visited the labour ward. Raising children, the biggest portion of my life. Raising children, a lion’s share of my support. People dined together, family friends,. Yawning yet not yelling.
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: Hassan's Story
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The unaccompanied children we see are usually referred (and accompanied by) a social worker. This was the case with Hassan, aged 17. Like many other unaccompanied minors, being separated from his family is very painful for him and he struggles to cope emotionally on his own. He suffers from nightmares and is often in tears. Hassan has a sense of hopelessness, not knowing whether his family are dead or alive. At Solace, we have worked hard to get his support back in place, so that he would at least be war...
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: Omar's Story
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Omar arrived in the UK in the middle of last year and turned 17 in December, 2012. Omar is from Syria. He feels very homesick and misses his family terribly. He doesn’t know their whereabouts or whether they are still alive. All these problems – again depressingly familiar to us at Solace – are exacerbated by sub-standard housing. He has a leaking roof, mice, mould, insects that bite him and have infested his clothes. He has no vacuum cleaner or cleaning products. Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution.
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: My Crazy Life
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Lemlem was an asylum seeker for five years before she became a refugee in 2009. For two of those asylum-seeking years she was destitute, sleeping on the streets in Portsmouth and then Leeds, which has left her with some long-term health problems. You can read her back story in our first newsletter. We first met Lemlem when she was an asylum seeker. It took two years of hard work for us not just to stabilise her mentally but get her legal help, which eventually led to her becoming a refugee. Meanwhile, th...
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: In Memory of B B
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In Memory of B B. I was not born to be a ghost. But now I am the ghost of the machine. That works the lungs the heart the kidneys. Of the body that is no longer. My body but the body. Of the congregation that prays for me. It is the winter of the new day. Of my birth when gifts are made. And hands grasped in the other. Country of my birth that I left. To live with dogs and talk with djinns. And beat on the door of the house. Of exile where still I am refused. My breath is an hydraulic ghost.
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: Mana's Story
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Mana is a mother with a teenage son who came to the UK a number of years ago from Iran after a history of domestic violence. Mana was originally living in Bradford but they were forced to move because of racist violence and bullying of her son at school. Mana and her son have a difficult relationship at times. Both suffer from physical pain. Mana suffers from migraines, shaking, vomiting, anxiety crying fits. Mana’s son has thyroid problems and difficulties breathing. View my complete profile.
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: French Asylum Seeker
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Here are deposited the remains of the Revd PETER DELAIRE, Rector and prior of Bazouges La Perouze in the Diocese of Rennes in Brittany. He departed this life on . Th 16th Febry, 1800, Aged 82. He was a clergyman of the most approachable Manners, of true piety and devotion and one of the many thousands of the French Ecclesiastics who sought and found Asylum in this Kingdom when they were reduced to the Necessities of Emigration. Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution. View my complete profile.
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Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution: New Stuff at Solace
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New Stuff at Solace. Solace has a great new website. With lots of video content explaining what we do. You can view eleven short films we have made on the website or you can see them all in the same place by clicking here. You can see one of them below of Anne Burghgraef, our Clinical Manager, taking you on a 4-minute whistlestop tour of Solace. Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution. View my complete profile. Click on the icon above to go to our main website. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
