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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sirin Kale

‘I can empathise because I’ve been there’: the mother who fled violence – and now offers her home to others in need

Rupy Kahlon
Rupy Kahlon in Walsall Arboretum: ‘I felt I could offer something.’ Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

When she opens the door to a girl carrying nothing but a bag of clothes, Rupy Kahlon is opening the door to her younger self.

Kahlon, 52, a university worker who lives in Walsall, hosts vulnerable young adults for the YMCA as part of the youth charity’s supported lodgings scheme, which places young people with nowhere to live in households with spare rooms.

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