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Safe Passage Young Leaders are a group of young people from refugee & asylum-seeking backgrounds, working together to make a difference and campaign for change.
The group meets most weeks online and face-to-face, to make friends, learn new skills and work together to make change and challenge injustice.
Safe Passage Young Leaders are experts by experience on issues and policies that affect young refugees. They have a lot of ideas and suggestions that those in power need to take seriously, and they care passionately about creating safe and legal routes for young people like them.
Safe Passage works with the group to help amplify their voices, whether it be through making videos, speaking with journalists or any other creative ideas the group comes up with. The program also provides training from external experts on areas that the Young Leaders think will be useful to them, from film-making and public speaking to engaging with MPs.
Together, they are building power and speaking out about issues they care about. They are calling for safe and legal routes to sanctuary and fighting for the rights of young refugees around the world.
Since they formed, the Young Leaders have achieved many things. Some highlights:
Produced a film calling on politicians to protect family reunion for refugees.
Written and co-designed a report – Safe Routes from the Perspective of Young Refugees: Our Response to the New Plan for Immigration – which they submitted to the Government in May 2021.
Played football at Craven Cottage (the ground of Fulham Football Club) with other young refugees; met Gary Lineker and players from Chelsea & Fulham Football Clubs!
Collaborated with Hummingbird Young Leaders and Kent Refugee Action Network Youth Forum on many actions and activities, such as roundtables with MPs and peers, public actions and the report submitted to the Government.
The Young Leaders participate in decision-making at Safe Passage. They share their ideas and expertise and are part of the wider Safe Passage community. For example, Young Leaders have helped to recruit new members of staff and develop the organisation’s strategic objectives.
We are currently expanding our group and would love for you to join us.
Are you under 25 and from a refugee/asylum-seeking background? Do you want to develop your skills in campaigning and work together with other young people to make a difference and challenge injustice?
Then join the Safe Passage Young Leaders today!
Please click on the link to express your interest in the program and we will be in touch soon. If you know a young person who wants to join and they would like you to apply on their behalf, please fill in the form, including the referral section at the bottom.
Young Leaders face-to-face activities normally take place in the Safe Passage office in East London. However, we are currently meeting both online and face-to-face. If you are based out of London, you will still be able to get involved with our activities and campaigns! Please specify whereabouts in the UK you live when you fill out the form.