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Every year, more and more young refugees are forced to flee their home countries and start again in an unfamiliar place. On arrival in the UK, refugee children can wait up to a year for a school or college place.
And getting back into education is just the first step.
Once there, language barriers, gaps in previous learning and the impact of trauma mean that young refugees have to work even harder than their peers to thrive, both in terms of their mental health and academically.
We also spoke to a mentoring pair called Rachel and Narges.
See firsthand how our mentoring programme is making a difference by watching the video below
Narges, mentee
“...mentoring is the biggest help that you can give to people who are in my situation, who don’t know what they should do in this country. Every asylum seeker and every refugee who comes to this country, for the first six months they are living here, they are struggling with everything…They have lots of dreams in their mind, but they don’t know where they should start and a person who is a mentor can really help them. So I’m really glad to have this experience with Rachel and REUK.”
Rachel, mentor
“It’s a real privilege to be part of Narges’s journey as she’s building her life and navigating and progressing through her education in the UK…it’s amazing to think about how much Narges has achieved and progressed…”
This Christmas, we are joining together to raise £30,000 to recruit, train and support new volunteer mentors to reduce our waiting list of young refugees in urgent need of help.
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£7 makes one mentoring session possible
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£15 provides specialist support to a mentee facing a particular challenge
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£115 trains up to 15 new mentors
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£550 enables a young refugee to be mentored for a term
The young refugees we serve never give up, and neither do our educational mentoring team. And today they need your support!
Will you stand alongside these amazing young refugees and mentors and give what you can today so that they can overcome their past, change their present and build a brighter future.
This Christmas, will you help change this?
Week in and week out, over 120 REUK volunteers - from students to retired teachers, to those just looking to get involved helping young refugees - are providing educational mentoring to young refugees in their local communities. This equates to a staggering 4,800 hours given each year of 1:1 support which builds young refugees’ confidence, increases their skills and better equips them to thrive and do well in education.