An Afghan refugee currently living in a hotel in the UK more than 230 miles away from her brothers said she feels her family’s ‘lives are paused’ as they await permanent accommodation.
Mawa Koofi, 21, fled Kabul in August last year with five members of her family when the Afghan city fell to the Taliban. Since then, she has lived in two hotels and has also been split up from some of her siblings.
The family-of-six originally moved to a hotel in Selby in North Yorkshire until Mawa, her mother and brother were relocated to a hotel near Crawley in West Sussex. Her 35-year-old sister remains at the hotel outside of Leeds whereas Ms Koofi’s two brothers, aged 23 and 26, were sent to a hotel in Manchester - which is 237 miles away from Crawley.
