ASYLUM seekers surviving on just £6 per day have been granted free travel in Glasgow as part of a new £2m Scottish Government pledge.
ASYLUM seekers surviving on just £6 per day have been granted free bus travel in Glasgow as part of a new £2m Scottish Government pledge.
Speaking exclusively to the Glasgow Times, Mr Sweeney said: “I am delighted to see that money has been earmarked in the upcoming Scottish Government budget to extend the concessionary travel scheme to people seeking asylum here. “The SNP-Green government must deliver this as a matter of urgency and look at what other levers we can use to help asylum seekers.”
The 42-year-old, who worked in a hospital in Aleppo before fleeing as she feared for her life, said: “I was made to feel like a second-class citizen. It was as though my life and the trauma of what I’d experienced in a war-torn country just didn’t matter. “The entire asylum system needs rebuilt as its leaving those in need struggling to get by. People are not allowed to work until they are granted permission to stay and the process takes months. I hear each day how the NHS here is struggling and here I am with the skills to help, but because I don’t have asylum yet, I can’t go and work there.
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