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GLASGOW’S VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKERS – HOW YOU CAN HELP

30 June 2020

SUPPORT THESE KEY DEMANDS

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1. We call on the Mears Group to arrange for the immediate return of 370 people to residential homes. We know that the serviced accommodation providers still have many available homes that Mears uprooted people from.

2. We call on the Mears Group/Home Office to immediately restore the basic allowance of £5.39 per day.

3. We call on the Home Office to expedite people’s asylum cases so they are not left waiting for a decision. they have been traumatised on their asylum journey, and retraumatised by the tragic incident of last week.

4. We call for a public inquiry into the events which led to the death of Adnan Elbi , a Syrian refugee who died at the age of 30 in the Mclays Guest House on May 5 2020 after warning that he was suicidal, the tragic incident on Friday 26 June 2020 whereby one person is dead and six were injured including a police officer, and to find out whether Vulnerability Assessments were carried out, and the Home Office procurement processes which led to this deadly accommodation crisis and the use of hotel detention.

ATTEND A SOCIALLY DISTANCED ACTION

Hear from those affected by the #ParkInnHotel tragedy
6pm Wed July 1 2020
Home Office 200 Brand Street Glasgow Scotland
https://www.facebook.com/events/598654881065961/

DONATE

Now more than ever we need your support so we can pass it on to those in greatest need.

Anyone wishing to #donate to our Emergency Relief Fund – grants are assessed continuously and go straight to asylum seekers who are in need – can do so here: https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/7987#!/DonationDetails

For other ways to give, go to: http://www.paih.org/donate

SPARE TECHNOLOGY

Human contact is limited because of Covid 19, contact with agencies too.We are looking at how we develop awareness of Zoom, WhatsApp and FaceTime as well as new ways of delivering surgeries. To do this we need to provide people with technology to help them contact us and others. Do you have a spare laptop or mobile phones? Please erase the contents and reset your devices, then sanitise it, then pop it in a Jiffy bag and donate your spare technology to us so we can pass it onto people desperately in need. Donate by posting to: Positive Action in Housing, 98 West George Street Glasgow G2 1PJ or email razgar@positiveactionh.org to arrange drop off.

DO YOU NEED HELP?

To asylum seekers placed by Mears Group at the Park Inn Hotel or other Hotels in Glasgow, if you need a mobile phone top-up, crisis grant, pre-legal casework or just someone to talk to, call our helpline 0141 353 2220, email home@positiveactionh.org or fill in this online form:

https://paih.typeform.com/to/bYYXZr

And someone will call you back and get more details and ensure you get help.

WHICH ORGANISATIONS SHOULD I SUPPORT?

Below are groups directly supporting asylum seekers in Glasgow that we recommend you support, and who are likely to make a bigger impact with fewer resources, we will add to this list:

Maslows Community Shop: https://www.facebook.com/maslowsgovan/
Unity Centre https://unitycentreglasgow.org/
No Evictions Network https://www.facebook.com/noevictions/
Positive Action in Housing https://www.paih.org/

Read more: https://www.paih.org/deadly-accommodation-crisis-for-glasg…/

#ParkInnhotel #Glasgow #AsylumSeekers

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