VVIDY: Voice of Voiceless Immigration Detainees Yorkshire

PUBLIC STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF DR. PIOUS NYANDORO

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We are Asma: Let Her Stay

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FREEDOMSEEKERS EMPOWERMENT FUND

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Welcome to the website for VVIDY, Voice of Voiceless Immigration Detainees Yorkshire. We are a grassroots migrant justice movement of campaigners and organisers based in Sheffield. The majority of us have direct Lived Experience of the UK’s Immigration Hostile Environment.

VVIDY, in collaboration with the Synergi Project, is pleased to announce the availability of a one-off customised financial support grant of up to £250. This initiative is designed to assist individuals facing mental health challenges and economic hardship, exacerbated by harmful political rhetoric, oppressive narratives, dehumanising policies, and political marginalisation in a major Western capitalist context.  

Eligibility for this funding is confined to individuals who are currently or have historically experienced economic hardship as a result of forced displacement, and are grappling with the unimaginable consequences of mental health-related challenges, as well as user-led groups within these communities.

VVIDY is a collective of individuals who have lived-experience of the United Kingdom’s hostile immigration system, which is entrenched in the neocolonial structures of oppression and disposition. 

We challenge the Hostile Environment through campaigning, advocacy, standing in solidarity and providing other support to people seeking sanctuary in the UK.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, challenging misinformation, and combating the normalisation of poverty. Our advocacy focuses on self-determination, migrant justice, and equitable treatment for all.

As a result, we propose and promote the term “FREEDOMSEEKERS” as a resilient and dignified terminology to use for people seeking sanctuary, recognising the complex factors that contribute to the forced displacement of individuals from the Global South. 

We are also part of the Solidarity Knows No Borders Network (SKNB), a community of migrant organisations, groups and individuals, organising in solidarity to end hostility and racism against migrants and refugees. You can find out more about SKNB here.

To view VVIDY’s statement following the rise in fascist attacks on asylum seekers, click here.