Clients of Praxis Community Projects, an immigration support centre, share their stories of hope
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A dozen or so people are gathered in a converted church hall in east London on an early December morning, waiting for the immigration advice service to open. The service is run by Praxis Community Projects, a charity that played a key role in uncovering the Windrush scandal.
The scandal, revealed in an award-winning series of Guardian articles over the past 18 months, laid bare the injustices inflicted on members of the Windrush Caribbean community – named after a ship that brought migrants to Britain in 1948. They lived legally in the UK for decades before being variously detained, deported, sacked, denied NHS care and made homeless and destitute after being unable to provide documents proving their right to be in the country.
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2CENvEx
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