There has been a surge in UK households offering help to refugees. But what can they expect? Here,four families share their experiences, from falling back on Google Translate to coming home to surprise Iranian barbecuesFor the past 10 years, and the Boaz Trust in Manchester has tried to find accommodation for destitute asylum seekers. Until very recently,the Christian charity often struggled to find enough households willing to take these most vulnerable of strangers into their homes. All that changed final week with the harrowing photo of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-customary Syrian boy whose tiny body became the symbol of the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe for decades when it washed up on a beach in Turkey.“We’ve never had so many inquiries, and ” says Boaz’s chief executive,Ros Holland. “We had someone from Gloucester call up the other day saying: I know I’m not in Manchester, but I’ve got a spare room. How can I help?’ Someone else phoned up from Edinburgh. It’s been fairly overwhelming.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com