WASHINGTON Pro-migrant advocates, including Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry, hailed Democratic President Joe Biden’s decision to reverse a Trump-era expulsion order, which will now allow up to 150,000 Haitians who fled natural disasters and the Caribbean nation’s continuing crises c.
THE chief executive of the Scottish Refugee Council has hailed the woman who taught him about “British values” on his arrival from Afghanistan. Sabir Zazai took up the top charity job in 2017 after consulting with Penny Walker, the woman who’d welcomed him to Coventry in 1999. The former charity worker was instrumental in setting up services for asylum seekers in the English city where the Home Office sent Zazai at the age of 22. She set-up supplies of clothing and helped new arrivals register with GPs, dentists and English language courses, as well as providing the volunteering opportunities that set Zazai on his career path.
Tributes paid to trailblazing founder of Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre after cancer battle
Penny Walker was a pioneer for the rights of refugees and migrants in Coventry
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Tributes have been paid to Penny Walker, the founder of Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre. Penny Walker passed away peacefully on Saturday May 22 2021, aged 70. She was a pioneer in Coventry for the rights of refugees and migrants. (Image: Courtesy of CRMC)
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