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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Esther Addley

‘Those clothes were like gold’: fashion donors give refugees dignity of choice

Sol Escobar of Give Your Best (left) and happy shopper Kemi, who has joined the organisation
Sol Escobar of Give Your Best (left) and happy shopper Kemi, who has joined the organisation. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

When she first came to Britain as a refugee from Nigeria six years ago, Kemi had a three-month-old daughter, a room in a shared house and £5.39 to survive on each day.

Because her daughter has a dairy intolerance, much of that meagre allowance went on buying food and soya milk for her baby, meaning Kemi herself frequently went hungry. Finding money for clothes, even from a charity shop, was out of the question.

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