{"id":4551,"date":"2021-12-13T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2021-12-13T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:12:00","slug":"portsmouth-city-of-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/2021\/12\/13\/portsmouth-city-of-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth City of Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2021\/12\/Portsmouth-City-of-Sanctuary-logo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4554\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2021\/12\/Portsmouth-City-of-Sanctuary-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a>We were happy to welcome Shamila Dhana to our December meeting to talk about refugees and the work of Portsmouth City of Sanctuary. She was a migrant herself, arriving in the UK in 2003 from Zimbabwe.<br \/><br \/>She was passionate to speak the truth about migrants. There are many terms used, often wrongly, for a refugee, or asylum seeker, migrant or illegal. The main definition comes from the refugee convention of 1941, followed by a protocol a few years later. It defines a Refugee as someone out of their country of birth, with a well-founded fear of persecution, against race, nationality, political group, religion or sexual orientation.<br \/><br \/>It may seem like the UK has a big problem, particularly with those trying to cross the English Channel, but we are not even in the top 10 countries for arriving refugees; Turkey leads the table with about 6 million Syrian refugees. In the UK there were 37,000 applications for asylum last year. 70% of migrants across the channel were accepted.\u00a0 There may be a long wait for the Home Office to consider a case, with some waiting longer than 2 years. If the claim is denied then they face eviction and deportation. Meanwhile they must sign on at Fareham police station, weekly or monthly.<br \/><br \/>There are 236 asylum seekers in Portsmouth. Single men will be housed in a multiply occupancy house, but families are put in a house to themselves. They are not allowed to work, and given \u00a338.50 per week per person for food, and an extra \u00a32 if they have a small child. They then have to find schools, solicitors, doctors and other groups, which is where Sanctuary come in.<br \/><br \/>The Hub is open every Monday morning at St Lucas Church 1030-1230, with Citizens Advice, Vista (working with women in the sex industry), and the Moving On project (for survivors of trafficking), and hoping in the future to include an on-site barber, GP, etc. The English lessons they have run since October are very popular. There is also a women only drop-in service on weds morning, particularly for those having experienced gender violence.<br \/><br \/>The main message from Shamila was that people are remarkably resilient, and can survive anything.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were happy to welcome Shamila Dhana to our December meeting to talk about refugees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Portsmouth City of Sanctuary | News | Blog | Events | SI Solent East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Solent East : Blog &amp; News : Portsmouth City of Sanctuary : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Solent East . 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