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Amie's Story

Read Amie's blog about her life in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
26th March 2020: Evidence submitted on the additional challenges of COVID-19 for asylum-seeking women

On 25th March RWC submitted evidence to the Home Affairs Committee enquiry into Home Office Preparedness for Covid-19. Taken from the testimonies of service users, we found that asylum-seeking women face additional and severe hardship due to Covid-19 and recommend immediate action to mitigate further crisis.
17th March 2020: Coronavirus: Service Changes

Coronavirus: Service Changes At Refugee Women Connect, our top priority is to protect the safety of our service users, volunteers and staff. This is why we have been monitoring the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) very closely for some time now.
9th April 2019: National Diversity Award nomination

We are delighted to announce that we have been nominated for the Community Organisation Award for Gender at the 2019 National Diversity Awards.

Who we are

Refugee Women Connect provides support for asylum seeking and refugee women including perinatal women and their babies, victims of sexual violence, trafficking, domestic slavery and human rights abuses. Any woman who is an asylum seeker or refugee in the Merseyside area can access our services. We aim to support our service users in a practical holistic way, working in a non judgemental manner and respecting each individual’s uniqueness and diversity.Replace this with your content
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Drop-in Volunteer

As a drop-in volunteer, you will have a range of different responsibilities from being on the reception desk and greeting our service users to helping out with the children.
Support map

We know it is important to have a local service you can rely on. Because of this we are creating a map of refugee women’s services and groups across the UK. If you would like to tell others about a great service or group then please get in touch so that we can add them to our map. If you are a woman seeking asylum or with leave to remain and cannot find a local service then please get in touch and we will try to help you find one.
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Play Assistant Volunteer

As a Play Assistant, you will be facilitating children’s activities during the drop-in session.
English Teacher Volunteer

Deliver English classes to service users at our drop-ins and at structured English classes.
13th August 2018: The Early Action Charter

Refugee Women Connect is excited to announce our participation in the Early Action Charter for People Seeking Asylum Programme, a three-year partnership between frontline organisations, that has received over £850,000 of National Lottery funding from the Big Lottery Fund, the UK’s largest funder of community activity...
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Interpreter Volunteer

Use your language skills to offer valuable support and advice to help people who are settling into a new environment.