18 June 2017
The kindness of strangers: the challenges and rewards of opening your home to refugees by Alison Phipps
By Alison Phipps IN my arms is a three-week-old baby. Her mother, who is from sub-Saharan Africa, has been evicted from the temporary London accommodation where she’d been placed after receiving refugee status, as she was found to have a well-founded fear of persecution. And now, mother and…
16 June 2017
When I opened my home to refugees
Alison Phipps and her husband Robert Professor Alison Phipps writes about her and her husband Robert’s experience of hosting refugees through Positive Action in Housing’s Room for Refugees Programme and its predecessor, which was simply called “accommodation project” … IN my arms is a…