Migrant Destitution Fund GM

👥👥 It takes all of us! 👥👥

Have you joined the #enddestitution campaign?

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✨️Write to your local MP & councillors

✨️Write a message of solidarity & welcome

✨️Sign the pledge

✨️Donate to the MDF

Every action matters. Together we can stand up for what's right.

Manchester says no to hate 🤍

A Britain First demonstration in Manchester was met by a larger counter-protest of local residents and over 30 grassroots organisations opposing racism and division.

Solidarity is a verb: going beyond social media posts, marches and demos.

It is easy to say solidarity, it is much harder to do solidarity.

Read our tips on how to do solidarity and step up.

#NoOneIsIllegal

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Rather than creating an even more Hostile Environment, we want the government to stop using destitution as a weapon of immigration control.

✊🏾We are not powerless! There is so much we can do. Visit our campaign page for solidarity actions you can take!

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📣Today we have launched the #EndDestitution campaign📣

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‼️The government’s latest plans threaten to force yet more people in our communities into destitution. We must stand against this. 1/

Join this free event where we will unpack the Government’s “earned settlement” proposals. Please RT! ow.ly/SOwQ50XQBFp #NoOneisIllegal #MigrationisLife #TheseWallsMustFall

We're determined to keep this fund open for as long as it is needed.

100% of your donation goes to members of our GM communities facing enforced destitution.

migrantdestitution.co.uk/donate/

#EndDestitution
#EndHostileEnvironment

Although the money from MDF is little, it is a lot to me.

Having access the the MDF has made a huge difference to how I feel myself. I am now in a position where I am able to rebuild my life and want to give back.

✨ As we approach a new year, if you’ve been thinking about how to make a meaningful difference, here's one way...

Please donate to the Migrant Destitution Fund. Whether it’s a one‑off or a monthly donation, every bit matters a lot.

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In short:

⚠️THE GOVERNMENT'S LATEST PLANS WILL FORCE MORE PEOPLE INTO DESTITUTION ⚠️

📣These changes, if implemented, will benefit NO-ONE except those who want to sow division and hate. They risk tearing our communities apart. They must be fought.

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Last month, the govt announced a series of cruel plans to make the Hostile Environment even more hostile.

Enforced destitution has been designed into the hostile environment for decades. These plans risk creating yet more destitution in our communities.

Read more here: tinyurl.com/4cfunxjk 1/

✨️This festive season, show solidarity, love & care to our friends & neighbours who are forced into destitution, by donating to the MDF.

migrantdestitution.co.uk/donate/

100% of your donation will go directly - as cash - to people facing enforced destitution.

💛 Your support means a lot! Thank you.

✨️This festive season, show solidarity, love & care to our friends & neighbours who are forced into destitution, by donating to the MDF.

migrantdestitution.co.uk/donate/

100% of your donation will go directly - as cash - to people facing enforced destitution.

💛 Your support means a lot! Thank you.

"And the harms caused by the Home Office’s failure to perform basic due diligence of sponsor organisations needs to be recognised by the government, with people who have often lost everything offered full reparation." 3/

"People who come to the UK to work should be free to do so and be treated with dignity and respect, without having their visa tied to a specific sponsor, which puts them at risk of exploitation." 2/

Solidarity with care workers!

We are piloting a new MDF programme for care workers facing destitution.

Find out more - and why this support is urgently needed - here: migrantdestitution.co.uk/new-mdf-prog... 1/

Our statement on the government's policy announcements on asylum yesterday

This Govt has yet again failed to learn that performative cruelty neither reduces the number of people who need protection nor appeases those driven by hate. People fleeing for their lives need stability and security to rebuild, especially after being forced to leave behind everything they know.

Starmer braced for backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans – UK politics live Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UK

Today, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood prepares to announce the latest attack on refugee rights in the UK.

A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear.

⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far:

Let's keep on building a community where everyone's dignity is respected. 🫂✊🏾

#EndDestitution
#DignityNotDestitution

While enforced destitution still exists, let's keep this fund open!

💛 Every donation you make to the MDF is an act of care & solidarity

💛 Every regular gift helps keep the fund open and sustained

Please share MDF & if you can, set up a regular donation today.

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That's 169 people who could meet their basic needs. 169 people who felt seen and supported by a community that refuses to look away.

When ppl are denied the right to work & access essential support, we respond with action. We are building a community safety net to make sure no-one goes without. 2/

In October, we reopened the MDF after a pause. We don’t yet have the funds to stay open year round - but thanks to your support, we gave cash grants to 169 people made destitute by the immigration & asylum system. 1/

📣 We want the government to stop using destitution as a weapon of immigration control, so that everyone in our society can live with dignity, no matter where they come from.

We are calling for #DignityNotDestitution!

Keep an 👀 on our socials & website for how to join the #EndDestitution campaign.

Last week's MDF partnership event was energising!✊🏽⚡️

We heard from...

Connect Talent, our new Salford based referral partner, who shared their great work in GM.

@gmiau.bsky.social shared what's known so far about changes to routes to settlement & what's being done to fight back.

📣MDF are looking for a Lived Experience Project Worker to join them and help embed lived experience into their work and other MACC projects.

This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.

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Passionate about centering lived experience to advocate for change?

@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.

Come and join us!

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A group of ppl with experience of life in asylum hotels across GM have come together to share their perspective.

A message of openness, understanding & hope from people want to be part of their new communities, to contribute, and live safely alongside their neighbours.

Please share far and wide!

They are saying they're sending me home, but Liverpool is my home Arteja loves Liverpool, supports Everton and has become a key member of the community - but now faces being sent back into the hands of those who exploited her

This is what hostility looks like. Arjeta endured trafficking and trauma and she's finally been able to rebuild her life. Now she's been locked up, torn away from the community that loves her and faces being sent back to danger.
#FreeArjeta
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Urgent call to action: help free Arjeta — a survivor of trafficking being deported righttoremain.org.uk/urgent-call-... #TheseWallsMustFall #Nooneisillegal #MigrationisLife

After facing liver problems, our friend Atef received a £30,700.25 NHS bill. The suggested payment plan would make Atef and his family destitute.

👉🏽 ACT NOW! Email the heads of @royalberkshospital.bsky.social to give Atef a payment plan within his means: patientsnotpassports.co.uk/what-do-we-d...