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		<title>A Sorrow’s Reflection</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2010/06/a-sorrow%e2%80%99s-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esme Peach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by Blessing, winner of our Refugee Week poetry competition in Portsmouth. Flooded with heavy emotion, my heart builds a steady momentum of grief yet I have lost no close one, suddenly it has come time to reap the rewards of unrelenting torment. It has built a mountain of debt and pay I must, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Refugee Week Blessing</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2010/06/a-refugee-week-blessing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esme Peach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Refugee Week is all about celebrating the contribution refugees make to the UK and honouring their personal stories of survival. Often the events organised to mark the week showcase individual talents and skills that are already well-known and much-lauded – like the performers on the main stage at London’s Celebrating Sanctuary for example. But Refugee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sretan Put &#8211; Safe Journey</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2010/06/sretan-put-safe-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara Gnoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Selma Seferovic
I come from Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina. A year into the devastating war in my country, my mother brought my brother and I to the U.K. The ‘mothers and children only’ convoy separated my family. I was about to turn eight, a birthday I would celebrate in an alien place, but luckily we managed to escape unharmed, unlike the many others.

 
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		<title>The generation of war</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2010/05/the-generation-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 09:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chiara Gnoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The peak of Islam, the heart of Asia…”

“Forever free the land of Arians...”

… are lines from one of the hundreds of national anthems Afghans have sung throughout the centuries. This poor nation has saluted hundreds of colours and shapes of flags, and danced to thousands of various songs composed by the sound of the gun.]]></description>
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		<title>A journey in search of hope&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2010/02/a-journey-in-search-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Ayech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ahmad Masood Wahed The sound of fire, the fear of being kidnapped, the unpaved streets, the naked structure of an empty class, the journey of an all-day work carrying the loads of masters on a pair of painful shoulders, the voice of innocent and hungry kids&#8230; is the sign of a new morning in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My experience as a lone parent on asylum support</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2010/02/my-experience-as-a-lone-parent-on-asylum-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Ayech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Tapiwa. I am a single father of two daughters and we arrived in the UK in August 2003. I had no idea that I would be prohibited from working for the upkeep of my family. It seemed so strange I was told that I would be given money from the state every [...]]]></description>
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