Campaign for Human Rights Defender Family Seeking Asylum

Hello, we are Aisha and Shay, Human Rights defenders from Balochistan who are seeking asylum in the UK and are members of RAPAR. 

For the last six months, since June 2022, we have been trying to secure help so that the human rights abuses that we have reported, along with many other residents of a SERCO run hotel in Stockport, are properly investigated and stopped.
 
Unfortunately, so far, Serco and Migrant Help (who are meant to investigate complaints) have refused to open investigations or to shelter us and our child somewhere safe and within travel distance of our daughter’s school.  Now, this Crowdfunder – Crowdfunding to enable Shay Babagar and RAPAR to build on Shay’s 35-day hunger strike to challenge Serco’s treatment of 'hotel' residents seeking asylum. on JustGiving - is to raise enough funds so that we can continue to campaign for these human rights while living in Stockport and our child carries on at her school.  
 
You can read all the background information, the press releases and the media coverage so far, here:  
Seeking Safety, Looking for Justice (rapar.co.uk). 
 
Since we first came to the UK in June 2022 we have come to realise how much we have in common with all the other people seeking asylum who have come from other parts of the world, and also with the ordinary people in Britain who are currently having to fight – like us – to protect themselves and their families from the attacks being made on their basic rights.  Our experience with health service workers, the nurses and doctors and everyone giving care in the hospitals and the ambulance staff, is that they have been very kind and really helped us.  We want to find ways to show our solidarity with them at this time, and with the PCS trade union workers who have taken a stand against the Rwandan deportation policy.
 
We want to continue to grow awareness about this campaign and to involve as many people as possible.  We are glad to come and speak at any groups or meetings that you may know about. 
 
Please share this information far and wide.  If you can, give some money to the campaign - it doesn’t matter how small an amount - everything helps.  Please reply to shaysfamily@rapar.org.uk if you want to talk further with us about this campaign and how to help it succeed.  We will be very glad to hear from you.
 
Thank you
 Aisha and Shay