Don't listen to lies - think about what it's like to be a refugee

Asylum Link Merseyside are contributing to the celebrations for Refugee Week with activities, fundraising and a 93 mile sponsored walk up Mount Snowdon. Established in 1998, this annual festival aligns with World Refugee Day and is celebrated globally on June 20.

"Refugee Week is the high point of our year and we work towards it. Every year we do a BBQ, a chance for people to come here, taste food from around the world and actually meet asylum seekers and refugees, because the two terms get twisted a lot". He said he volunteers "to find the meaning of life as an asylum seeker in a new world without family, friends etc. You don't see the world through the eyes of an asylum seeker until you are an asylum seeker".

"They don't have to be any particular thing to be a refugee, you just have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. People should go onto websites like Asylum Link, the Refugee Council or UNHCR and find out.

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