43. THE JOURNEY Episode 3: The Journey

Asylum Speakers Podcast with Jaz O'Hara: Stories of Migration

Welcome to Episode THREE of The Journey - a 6-part podcast series following migration routes from Africa, The Middle East and Ukraine, to northern Europe.

So far this season we’ve explored the reasons why people are leaving their countries, and taken a look at what life looks like in the first countries they arrive to. As a result of how difficult things can be in that first country, we also know that many people are forced to continue their journey until they find a country where they can live in safety…

But what do these journey’s look like? How do people cross borders, often without passports, visas or documentation? Do they use smugglers? Whats it like crossing the desert or the mountains or the sea?

We might have seen the newspaper articles about how dangerous these journey’s can be, but let’s hear it directly from the people with lived experience…

In this episode we hear from a young Afghan friend of mine, Shikhali, about how he crossed land and sea to make it to safety in France. We also hear some familiar voices such as Anne O'Rorke in Turkey, and Susie and Rashid in Egypt.

To find out more about the organisations featured in this episode:

https://tiafi.org/

https://www.syrianeyes.org/

https://stars-egypt.org/

To support this podcast:

https://patreon.com/theworldwidetribe

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Many of the people we spoke to along this journey are being supported by projects funded by Comic Relief. Thanks to donations from the UK public, Comic Relief's Across Borders programme has invested over £7 million in organisations supporting refugees and people seeking asylum along these routes. Find out more about Comic Relief’s work and how to support it at comicrelief.com.

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