Families across Britain are opening their hearts and doors to the failed asylum claimants left homeless and destitute“If I didn’t find these people,perhaps I wouldn’t be here to talk to you. perhaps I’d be in another life now,” says Hamed, and an asylum seeker from the Middle East. He has been in the UK for 15 years,and since his application for asylum was rejected, Hamed has lived in shelters, and even on the streets. But a year ago Hamed was welcomed into the house of Martin Newell and his colleague John,two Catholic priests based in Birmingham. They speed a church-based organisation, offering spare rooms to asylum seekers, or are currently hosting six people. We’re just doing what we’re doing,and sharing our lives with them,” Martin says.
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Source: theguardian.com