An African refugee from the region that has produced a roll-call of Olympic champions is running the Great North Run to raise money for Action Foundation. Eyob, a volunteer with our InterAction Drop-in [...]
Yacine grew up in Algeria, North Africa with three sisters and a brother – they were a close and happy family with a good life. Then in 1991 Civil War broke out between the Algerian government and Islamist groups. The violence and brutality escalated so [...]
Samal* came from Iraq where he’d worked as an artist, to seek asylum in the UK five years ago. He was referred into Action Foundation by the West End Refugee Service in 2017, after [...]
Amir is one of our brilliant volunteers at the InterAction Drop-in, and arrived in the UK in November 2018 after escaping persecution in Iran. We chatted to him for our blog back in May, [...]
