This is the kind of issue that crops up every week for Andrew Lake, youth worker at the Dreamers project for young asylum seekers in Loughborough, Leicestershire. "There's no way I can understand all that," says Lake.
"The strength of this group is that another member can say, 'I do understand the situation and now I know things will change'."
Lake set up Dreamers after meeting a young Kosovan in 2002. "He talked about isolation, about poverty, about feeling unwanted, about how people didn't care about him, and about frustration at not being able to be part of the community," explains Lake.
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