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License to work for Zimbabweans without status

With Zimbabwe in the news, now is an important time to put the pressure on the Government to make sure the thousands of Zimbabweans can help themselves out of poverty through paid work.

 

CAP were delighted that the Prime Minister has stopped the deportations to Zimbabwe of people refused asylum. For years thousands of people refused asylum have been faced with the impossible choice of agreeing to return to a country being torn apart or be destitute in the UK. Not surprisingly many have chose the relative safety of Britain.

 

We believe that people refused asylum should be given a license to work whilst they are in the UK. That way they can help themselves out of poverty; contribute to British society and economy; and build up their skills to work in a future Zimbabwe.

 

You can help us put pressure on the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, to let them work. We have a special website that gives you a template and automatically emails it to her. Please take 10 minutes to do this here.

 

And whilst you’re at, please write here to the Foreign Secretary to make the point to him that his “foreign policy interests” are best served by letting Zimbabweans work.

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Church Action on Poverty is a national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the UK. It works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.