Help keep the Okpara family safe in Sheffield! Their application for asylum has been poorly handled and consequently they have been issued deporation papers. If forced to return to Nigeria their lives will be at risk and they will not be safe. In Sheffield they are embedded in our community and the children are content and happy members of their school. Both community and school would be devastated if the family were deported. Hear and read Mildred Okpara's blog here.
Thank you to all those who joined the Rally on Saturday, 25th September outside Shefffield Town Hall.

Wednesday 22 September 2010

Mildred's Story - coming to the UK and application for asylum

Mildred arrived in the UK amid fear and confusion. Her case for asylum was handed from one legal representative to the next with little consistency and plenty of room for error. On arrival and over the years whilst she attempted to find some normality in the state of limbo that asylum seekers live within she never felt she was in control of her own application and as it transpires no one else was either.

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