“Shelter is a verb,” says Dania Thomas, volunteer director of Ubuntu, the Glasgow-based, refugee-led charity supporting several hundred women each year who have been forced to the margins by the asylum system.
It was an idea conceived around Thomas’s dining table over a pot of hot curry and rice, explains founding trustee Fatou Gitteh, when friends and activists questioned why there was no dedicated shelter for women with insecure immigration or no recourse to public funds (NRPF) status in Glasgow, Scotland’s biggest asylum dispersal area.
