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A safer home here
• IT was heartening to read such a positive story about the mayor of Islington Anna Berent raising money for asylum seekers (Limbo life; refugess who flee torture, August 21).
Charities helping asylum seekers are certainly of vital importance. Growing vegetables (and maybe medicinal herbs?) is very therapeutic as well as a good way to eke out the pitifully small allowance given to asylum seekers.
I hope this article does not attract the usual series of rants from people who have never met anyone who would rather die here than go back to the country where they were tortured.
In the late 1960s working in Islington, in an area due to be “redeveloped”, gave me my first opportunity to mix with people who had arrived in this country to make a safer home for themselves. I enjoyed the chance to learn about other cultures.
JACKIE FEARNLEY
Goathland, North Yorkshire
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