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About Refugee Voices |
We are very happy to announce we have launched a new project called ‘Refugee Voices’.
Refugee Voices is a project developed by three students at Eton College that aims to give refugees a platform to share their stories with a wider audience.
Herts Welcomes Refugees supports this project and the students have offered to fundraise for our charity.
Three students from Eton College (Ediz, Julian and Shaun), will be interviewing selected refugees with a member of HWR sitting in. The students will then write up profiles, with names changed to protect the interviewees’ identity, based on their original experiences and memories. The profiles will be posted on this page over the course of the year.
The intention of the project is to allow refugees to tell their own stories about how their lives were disrupted by events and the pressures that forced them to take the momentous decision to leave their own country (and often their wider families) in order to seek safety in the UK, and how they are adjusting to life here.
This will raise awareness about the difficult circumstances for refugees narrated from their own perspective, as they share their unique stories, particularly important today where UK media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers often makes sweeping and often incorrect or false claims about the reasons why refugees come to the UK to claim asylum.
Allowing interviewees to tell their story as they wish and to explain the various factors and events that led to their displacement as well as how they feel as they make their home here will help illuminate the true realities of the situation that many refugees have faced and enhance understanding amongst the students and wider population.
Read on to see the unique stories told below: Refugee Voices
Refugee Voices is a project developed by three students at Eton College that aims to give refugees a platform to share their stories with a wider audience.
Herts Welcomes Refugees supports this project and the students have offered to fundraise for our charity.
Three students from Eton College (Ediz, Julian and Shaun), will be interviewing selected refugees with a member of HWR sitting in. The students will then write up profiles, with names changed to protect the interviewees’ identity, based on their original experiences and memories. The profiles will be posted on this page over the course of the year.
The intention of the project is to allow refugees to tell their own stories about how their lives were disrupted by events and the pressures that forced them to take the momentous decision to leave their own country (and often their wider families) in order to seek safety in the UK, and how they are adjusting to life here.
This will raise awareness about the difficult circumstances for refugees narrated from their own perspective, as they share their unique stories, particularly important today where UK media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers often makes sweeping and often incorrect or false claims about the reasons why refugees come to the UK to claim asylum.
Allowing interviewees to tell their story as they wish and to explain the various factors and events that led to their displacement as well as how they feel as they make their home here will help illuminate the true realities of the situation that many refugees have faced and enhance understanding amongst the students and wider population.
Read on to see the unique stories told below: Refugee Voices
