Are you living on supermarket vouchers?
We can exchange your gift vouchers for cash at face value.
This won’t cost you anything and will enable you to buy what you want and where you want.
What to do?
Come to see us at Praxis on Thursdays and bring your supermarket vouchers from Asda, Tesco or Sainsbury with you. We will exchange a maximum of £35 in vouchers per person every month.
Voucher Exchange
Every Thursday Every week from 10am to 1pm
What is the idea?
To show solidarity with destitute asylum seekers who have to live on supermarket vouchers.
By exchanging their vouchers into cash at face value, so that they can decide what and where they want to shop. is the idea?
Who is it for?
Asylum seekers, who are on section 4 receive £35 in supermarket vouchers per week. They rarely have a choice of which vouchers they get. Supermarkets are often miles away from where they live. Without cash they are not able to use the local markets, where food from different cultures is available and often cheaper than elsewhere. As a result of this asylum seekers often sell their vouchers for much less than face value (the going rate is £20 cash) in order to buy bus tickets to attend college or medical appointments.
Would you like to make a difference?
Join our network of individuals and communities who are buying the gift vouchers from the asylum seekers through our office.
Fill the sign-up form opposite and choose among the different options you prefer and send it back to Praxis.
This voucher exchange scheme is a partnership between Praxis and TELCO.
Praxis offers advice and support to migrants and refugees.
TELCO is an alliance of 48 different member organisations that come togetherto work for social justice and towards common good.
www.telcocitizens.org.uk
Please click here to download the supermarket voucher exchange form.
Why?
Showing solidarity with destitute asylum seekers by following the successful example of South London Citizens
Asylum seekers, who are on section 4 receive £35 in supermarket vouchers per week. They rarely have a choice of which vouchers they get. Supermarkets are often miles away from where they live. Without cash they are not able to use the local market, where food for different cultural habitants is provided and much cheaper than elsewhere. The result is that asylum seekers often sell their vouchers for much less than face value (the going rate is £ 20 cash) so that they can buy bus tickets to attend college, to report at immigration reporting centres or to attend medical and legal appointments.
Who?
We warmly welcome all kind of support groups, charities, community groups, faith groups and their members and clients from East London, who are interested in a voucher-exchange-programme or in getting to know more about TELCO (The East London Communities Organisation) and our campaigns.
What else?
Introduction of
TELCO and their campaigns
“Strangers into Citizens” and “The Independent Asylum Commission”
Further campaigns TELCO is running:
Campaign to secure an “earned amnesty” for undocumented migrants in our communities.
Concerned by the emergence of a new underclass of people in the UK who are denied basic rights, the country’s largest alliance of civic institutions is calling for a pathway to citizenship for long-term undocumented migrants.
“Strangers into Citizens” proposes that migrants who have been in the UK for four years or more be given a two-year work permit. At the end of that period, subject to employer or character references and an English test, they should be granted leave to remain.
The aim of the Commission is to conduct an independent review of the UK's asylum system by engaging with people across the UK, including asylum seekers and refugees, politicians and the general public. We have collected evidence in a variety of ways, such as oral testimony at public hearings, to written evidence sent via post and email. The evidence we gather will feed into a report written by Commissioners and IAC staff which will make recommendations for reform to the Government. This will be launched in spring 2008.
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