Refugees and Brexit… how Curzon Ashton FC are helping UK settlers with football and friendly faces
As with most important issues at the moment, the settlement of refugees in the UK is being overshadowed by Brexit.
From Sudan to Manchester via the Nile… MM discuss life in the North (and queuing for buses) with Bolton refugee
It’s been two decades since Sudanese political activist Yagoub Matar, 49, first became a refugee when escaping the clutches of the one-party, oppressive state of Sudan.
I escaped North Korea: One woman’s journey from the most secretive nation on earth… to Bury
Mention North Korea to anyone and striking images will likely fill their head. Vast military parades through the central square of the nation’s capital.
Coping without Calais: Boxer Stacey Copeland chats to MM about transforming lives in French migrant camps
MM talked to Stacey Copeland, Manchester’s most successful female boxer, about her recent trip to a refugee camp in Calais where she spent a week transforming the lives of child migrants through the power of sport.
Two Sikhs, Three Peaks… Manchester Grammar School cousins take on Welsh mountains for refugee charity
Two Mancunian cousins will take on the Welsh Three Peaks Challenge in aid of refugees this October.
‘It could have been my kids’: Mother of four to travel to Calais to assist migrants
After watching the news and reading stories of the desperate migrant situation in Calais, a Mobberley teacher and mother of four has decided to join the volunteer movement there.
‘Ingrained set of problems’: Man Uni expert discusses ‘challenging’ asylum crisis
New research conducted by the University of Manchester has revealed that asylum accommodation is reviewed based on profit, and not the wellbeing of the occupants.
City or United? Manchester theatre director says Calais refugees ‘just normal people in extreme circumstances’
Visiting a refugee camp may not be a weekend activity that immediately springs to mind but for a young Manchester-based theatre director it was an essential and rewarding trip.
‘It’s very frustrating’: French PM’s claim that migration is ‘great risk’ to EU slammed by Manchester refugee charity
The French Prime Minister’s comments saying that migration poses a ‘great risk’ to the EU have been described as ‘frustrating’ by a Manchester charity.
‘If that was me, how would I cope?’: Manchester University student dedicates PhD to supporting Syrian migrants
In September 2015, The Independent devoted their front page to three-year-old Aylan Kurdi – a Syrian refugee, whose dead body was washed ashore in Turkey after his boat capsized before it could reach the safety of Kos.
‘Human catastrophe’: Syrians denied burial in Lesbos as Oldham charity plead for help
Oldham charity volunteer pleads for help as 70 Syrians are denied burial in Lesbos.