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Seeking help from london
18 August 2009

Hello,
I am a student in London.

I contact you because every week I volunteer in Yarl's Wood detention centre
for asylum seekers.
Two weeks ago I met a South African woman who has a history of domestic
abuse. She is detained there because she is waiting to know if her
application for the asylum will be succesful. However she is facing the risk
of a removal to South Africa. This might happen in few days.

I would like to know, please, if, in the unlucky event of the rejection of
her asylum procedure, you might support her. She would need to hide from her
husband and help to find a job as a nurse.

Thank you for your attention.
Sincerly




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Hi

We are a web-based organisation she would need to contact one of a number of
organisations depending what town she comes from; in Johannesburg it would
be People Opposed to Women Abuse or Nisaa both of which have shelters. But
too there is a desperate shortage of nurses here so she will find work
easily.

No matter where she is in South Africa she can contact the Stop Women Abuse
line of Lifeline and they will point her to assistance close to wherever she
chooses to be.

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