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Winter Night Shelter
The Winter Night Shelter will operate for destitute asylum seeker men and women from December 5th 2011 to 31st March 2012. This Glasgow Destitution Network project aims to provide night shelter to a maximum of 15 individuals each night of the week. Donations and volunteers are urgently needed. Read more here.
About the Destitution Network
More and more people are being excluded from the social welfare safety net, finding themselves homeless and destitute with no access to housing, employment or benefits. Most are migrants, such as refugees who have been refused asylum, or unemployed people from Europe.
The Glasgow Destitution Network is a network of community and faith groups and individuals working to coordinate emergency housing, food, clothing, cash and other support.
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Hundreds of refugees are being put out of their homes with no benefits and no rights to work. Unable to return to their countries they are in a stateless limbo on Glasgow’s streets.
“My life is frozen,” says a Zimbabwean maths teacher who has been living “Underground” since being evicted from his council flat. “I’m existing, but it’s not a life. I don’t think Scottish people know we are being chucked onto the street or they would not allow it to happen”.
This film raised awareness about the issue of asylum seekers and refugees being made destitute on the streets of Glasgow. It was a call to action, encouraging people to help by offering their spare rooms to destitute asylum seekers.
