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Name: | Shano Khorshed |
Age: | 18 |
Year of the Fix: | 2017 |
Location: | Leeds |
Campaign: | To encourage people to welcome refugees |
I immigrated from Iraqi Kurdistan to the UK in 2010 with my family.
We didn't speak a word of English so it was hard to get by.
Even simple things like buying something from a shop were difficult, and we felt lonley and isolated.
I've since learned how to speak English, but I'll never forget how scary it was when we first arrived in the UK.
There are lots of refugees here now, so we wanted to provide something to welcome them.
That's why we've made some coffee sleeves with Fixers, which list greetings translated from English to Arabic.
My team and I hope that they will inspire converations between strangers, help refugees meet local communities and build strong bonds together.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with this Fix:
Alexander Lee-Wildt
Esmail Alhajji
Merwan Nuredin
Mohamed Alameen
Emma Welch
Demi Tonks
Stephanie Stubbs
Bethany Smith
Sasha Proudman
Amber Parry
Freya Nicholls
Yve Maddock
Freya Lawton
Lauren Sandbach Jones
Abbie Hollinshead
Arslan Zahid
Sanah Rehman
I would like to thank Abdou Sidibe from The Children's Society, for providing an interview for my ITV News broadcast.
Sam Barakat
Shano
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Jack H
Ethan Mcinally
Hannah Carter
'Ben'
Timothy Cranfield
Shak & Natasha
Mason Latey
Liam Thomas
Hannah Baker
Alexandra Garrick
Chelsie Brown
Fixers
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Shannon Rawlings
Ben Simms
Jo Quinn