Through Advent, we're posting short interviews each weekend with asylum-seekers who've been forced into destitution, and remembering that Jesus was born to a refugee couple. The third interview is with Mary Lubanjwa from Uganda.
Mary talks about the fear of deportation, the impossibility of returning home yet, and how her faith sustains her:
“I want very, very much to go home, but if I go there, I don't know what could happen to me... It's not easy to stay because you can't make friends here. The neighbours, they don't know you, you don't know them... They keep asylum-seekers in darkness - you are not allowed to work.”
Church Action on Poverty’s Living Ghosts campaign, part of the Still Human Still Here coalition, is calling for an end to policies which force asylum-seekers into destitution.
The interview was carried out by Hazel Healy in Northwest England during summer 2007. Some names have been changed to protect identities.
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