This week is Refugee

Week...
To celebrate refugee week we
are asking all tutor groups at
Longford to take part in the
How To Get Involved
simple acts campaign...

The Simple Acts

campaign is about
using small,
everyday actions
to change the way
we see refugees.
Your world
changing action
for today is...
Find Five Facts About
Refugees
The Simple Acts
campaign is about
using small,
everyday actions
to change the way
we see refugees.
• Fact- information based
on something that is true

Example:
Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA
world footballer of the year 2008
• Opinion- what someone
thinks or believes about
something

Example:
Rooney is the best footballer in the
world
 What do y ou k now ab out
re fuge es?
Do y ou k now f ac ts or op inions ?
FACT
A refugee is a person
who has been
forced to leave
their country
because it is not
safe for them to
stay.
Look at the case studies…

• Where do refugees come from?

• Why do people have to leave their countries?
• Are there any famous refugees?

Using your facts and your opinions write a short

story or poem about refugees- this will help you
remember the facts!
Hamed Sabri Dashti is a heavyweight boxing
champion and kick boxing champion from Iran. He
arrived in the UK in February 2008 and has been
sent to live in Leeds. He is 27. (Interview conducted
through a translator)
So, you’re a heavyweight boxer? What happened?
Yes, I have been boxing and kick I didn’t get to go to
boxing since I was young. I have won Athens because of
competitions in cities all over Iran, corruption. The
and also in Malaysia, Turkey, Syria, fundamentalists took
Belarus, Armenia and Ukraine. I was their favoured people
selected for the Iranian Olympic to Athens instead.
Team for Athens in 2004.
Is that why you had to leave Iran?
No, I ran two fitness gyms in Tehran and wanted to stay. Over a
thousand people used my gyms. We had many students and pro-
democracy people using the gyms. But the secret police came every day
and made trouble, asking why were women there dressed in Western
style, why were we listening to western music. It was the same kind of
music that people work out to in gyms in the UK, but they said it was
the music of Satan. Sometimes they would break windows and beat
people there and they would padlock the door
 Amra Duherich came to the UK in 1992 from
Bosnia where she was a teacher and interpreter.
She now teaches Maths at Walthamstow School
for girls
How did you start teaching in the UK?
I trained as a teacher in Bosnia so my
qualification wasn’t recognised here. At
first I worked as a bilingual instructor, a
kind of unqualified teacher, with people
newly arrived in the UK. Through that
job I went on to do an Overseas Teacher
Was it difficult to qualify? Training Course which is a route into
At times it was very frustrating; even mainstream teaching for people who
though I had a degree in English and a qualified abroad.
teaching qualification I couldn’t work as
a teacher. I had the same skills as my
colleagues but their qualifications were
recognised and mine weren’t. I was
determined though and always reminded
myself that I had stayed alive and that
things could be a lot worse.
Tesfay Sebhat ‘I think the transition in my life from guerrilla fighter,
was born in Liberation Army, and to come here, to live in Europe
Eritrea in 1955 was harder than to become a blind person.
and came to The weather, the culture, the language, you name it, a
London in 1980. multiple of barriers to go through.
He now holds a The date I was registered as a blind person, I think the
senior position as top thing was I accepted it. I accepted that I am blind
the Town Centre and I have to live with it… To be independent, that was
the whole idea, and I think, I believe I have achieved
Youth and Play
it…
Services Manager I think my being in this position breaks all stereotypes
for one of the about refugees and black people or disabled people in
London borough general. I think that breaks the barriers that break all
councils. these negative stereotypes. Therefore I think my
contribution is a big thing and it inspires everybody.
And a lot of colleagues, they acknowledge it as well.
Sometimes you know they take me as a person who
inspires them, a role model. That is my contribution
here.’
 Congratulations!!!
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Find Five Facts About Refugees
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log onto our website and register your action

www.simpleacts.org.uk
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TAKE ACTION ON GLOBAL ISSUES…
LET PEOPLE KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN
THE WORLD…
If so… Mrs Hutton & Miss Slatter invite you to...