20 Can’t Stay. Can’t Go. Refused asylum seekers who cannot be returned nothing really long-term to provide them Leicester and Leeds Red Cross refugee support with support. (Red Cross staff member, services provide some clothes: Birmingham) We give out some clothes, some donated Faheem (Palestine) uses some of the money he clothes at our drop in. I don’t know if there’s gets from Birmingham Red Cross to buy food. anywhere near as much as what the demand Otherwise, he goes to the soup kitchen. Joshua may be. (Red Cross staff member, Leeds) (Ethiopia) commented: “I will go eat in the church in Coventry, sometimes Nuneaton… I go all around.” Our participants mentioned the following charities that provide clothes: the Open Hands Trust in The Leeds Red Cross refugee service provides Leicester, City of Sanctuary Wakefield, PAFRAS Morrisons food vouchers and food parcels, in Leeds, Justice First in Stockton-on-Tees, a with service users entitled to 12 vouchers homeless shelter in Newcastle and a soup kitchen per year. Qareen (Palestine) reported that the in Birmingham. accommodation where PAFRAS sends him sometimes has food. Alternatively, he can get a Two of our participants rely on friends for clothes. meal at Refugee Action York. Qareen has a health Qareen (Iraq) has an Iraqi friend who used to give condition that requires him to eat regularly, but him clothes, but his friend has now married and some days he does not find food. Samir (Algeria) can no longer help. gets food from City of Sanctuary Wakefield and the Red Cross has given him food vouchers and Faheem (Palestine) tries to take care of his food parcels in the past. clothes and washes them whenever he can. He will sometimes work at the car wash and wash Zareb (Sudan) has previously presented at the his clothes there. When he has earned some Glasgow Red Cross because he was hungry. He money, he buys clothes from the Sunday market in commented that he is not able to eat as often as Birmingham. he would like, although he can get breakfast at the Glasgow Night Shelter and a hot meal at the Marie Zareb (Sudan) worries that he does not have Trust or Glasgow City Mission. adequate clothing for the cold Glasgow winter. He does not know where he can go to get some warmer clothes. Aman (Iraq) commented: “I’ve 3.6 Having clothes to wear been two years in the same clothing I have. Always I have the same clothing.” Even those who are on support may be unable to afford to buy clothing. Fiyori (Eritrea) is on Section 95 support, but finds it a struggle to clothe her two 3.7 Health small children: It is definitely not enough when it comes to 3.7.1 Physical health clothes for the children, who grow all the time. The three Red Cross staff members we Children need a lot of things. It is very hard. interviewed in Glasgow and Teesside felt that (Fiyori, Eritrea) people who live with friends are often in better health than those who live on the streets. In Enaya (Palestine) also struggles to buy clothes their experience, those who live on the streets for her child while on Section 95 support and has are susceptible to a range of illnesses, including approached the Home Office for assistance with tuberculosis. school uniform items. Some of our participants have health issues that Those receiving Section 4 support also find it require ongoing care. Both Zareb (Sudan) and difficult to buy clothes: “Well, you can’t really buy Aman (Iraq) suffer from joint pain in their legs clothes, because clothes are so expensive” (Kayla, and kidney problems. Qareen (Palestine) has a Zimbabwe). Friends will sometimes give Kayla gastrointestinal issue that will require surgery. He money to buy clothes or shoes from the charity is waiting for the general practitioner (GP) to refer shop. him to a specialist. Those who are not on support tend to rely on such Faheem (Palestine) has some long-term health sources as the Red Cross and other charities. Of issues stemming from when he was attacked in the services that took part in the research, the Dover a few years ago: