Afghan refugees help poorly Lancashire babies

Lancashire Post

Lancashire County Council's Community Development Coordinator Viktoriia Murych explains how they are helping Afghan women integrate into the community, inc by sewing incubater covers for premature babies. Credit: LCC

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00:00Hi, I'm digital reporter Amy Seddon. In Lancashire, a group of African refugees are using their

00:07sewing skills that kept them going under the Taliban to now help poorly babies across the

00:12county. In the following clip, Victoria Murek, Community Development Coordinator for Lancashire

00:19County Council, explains a bit more. I work as a Community Development Coordinator for

00:25Refugee Integration Team and part of my job to keep ladies from Vietnam busy. They are refugees

00:32from Afghanistan and my task and my personal desire to help them to integrate to local community.

00:39So that's why we have our weekly women's group where we can have colouring or sewing. I would

00:46like they feel more involved, you know, and also more visible. That's why we try to arrange

00:52different integration activities and involve them to help them to show their skills, talents. I'm

00:58absolutely happy and like honoured to be part of this project because it is just like communities,

01:04you know. They were refugees yesterday and today they have good impact and contribution to our

01:09local community and they are also very like grateful and they would like to contribute

01:14to do something good for other people. So and I think that's really absolutely amazing.

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