Orphans of the genocide in Rwanda are being evicted to make room for refugees sent under the Government's new plan for asylum seekers. Under the £120million scheme announced by Home Secretary Priti Patel last week, refugees seeking safe haven in the UK will be sent to the African country first to be processed.
But the Mirror reports that one of the hotels earmarked is already being used by orphans of Rwanda’s civil war left traumatised by the 1994 conflict. Some 22 residents are being turfed out of Hope House hostel to make room for the asylum seekers.
Although now in their late 20s, the survivors have no money or family and some face lifelong mental health battles. They were given a fortnight’s notice to ship out of the hostel in capital city Kigali.
