It's The Refugee Week 2010

This is one of hundreds of events across the UK as part of Refugee Week 2010.
Even though 89% efficiently stated the meaning of "asylum seeker" as a person running persecution inside his or her own countries, 28% continues to believe an asylum seeker is actually somebody who has arrived here in UK, to find work against the law.

57% believed that asylum seekers have been offered coupons to pay for their surviving costs as much as one hundred pounds per week also with 14% of people believing the actual once a week sum was more than one hundred pounds.

But the real truth is, asylum seekers get housing as well as vouchers of only £35 weekly. Declined asylum seekers on the contrary, don't have any assistance whatsoever. What Can we get for £35 that could feed us all week? Can you live on that money? I can't!

This particular year's Look Beyond the Label advertising campaign is actually fronted through a great interactive viral video clip presenting the Hollywood celebrity Dougray Scott and the singer Karen David as well as stand up comedian Stephen K Amos. The actual "Look Beyond the Label" video clip
is hosted using a Facebook application, in which many people may click "like" in order to vote to end the destitution here in England. Followers may also share the particular application independently on their Facebook profiles, create responses displaying their own help, or even click through in order to browse additional refugee reports.

Countless individuals that have turned up here lately, being refugees currently have a whole lot give - however refugees are not permitted to give back anything at all. Alternatively, most are pushed in to destitution: being homeless so close to malnourishment. No one cares if they are doctors, teachers or have anything at all to offer in return. Refugees want to give something back, but they are not allowed.
Why?????
Why can't Refugees work? Why can't they have a normal life?

Has your understanding of asylum seekers and refugees increased as a
result of this event?
YES = 90%
NO = 10%

A refugee is a person who "owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country." (from the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees)
No one likes or chooses to be a refugee. Being a refugee means more than just being a foreigner. It means living in exile and often depending on others for basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter.
During Refugee Week 2010 they met many people who have now settled in Leeds and who are working hard to give something back to the communities that have helped them here.

Arami Sharif is one of those people. Having arrived in the UK as a teenager she is now setting up an organisation called Independent Somali Women and Children.