Benny Hunter is the co-ordinator of the Da’aro Youth Project which works with asylum seekers and refugees aged 14 to 21 from Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.
Hunter helped set up the organisation with members of the Eritrean community in London, after four teenagers seeking asylum in the UK from Eritrea committed suicide after struggling to access support.
Hunter described how he met one of the men, Alexander Teckle, at a refugee camp in Calais when he was 16 in 2017.
The pair stayed in touch but when Teckle arrived in the UK he was wrongly age-assessed and placed in a hostel for adults where he was violently assaulted, Hunter said.
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