Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group works to improve the welfare and well-being of people held in detention, by offering friendship and support and advocating for fair treatment.GDWG has now grown to around 70 volunteers, who visit and befriend people held in immigration detention. The group believes that each person held has a right to be treated with respect, whatever the outcome of their case. Our staff team co-ordinate and support volunteers, as well as providing support and advocacy to detained people.

Refugee Tales is an outreach project calling for an end to indefinite detention and we run ‘Walk with Us’ for people who have experienced detention to join walks on release. Refugee Tales anthologies with the tales of those indefinitely detained are available from Comma Press. Since 2015, Refugee Tales walkers have made a large scale walk every summer in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and people who have been held in immigration detention.Through the sharing of tales the project has gathered and communicated experiences of migration, and has sought to show the reality of indefinite detention. As the project walks it creates a space in which the language of welcome is the prevailing discourse. 

Please support me as I walk 55 miles over 5 days and sleep 5 nights on church hall floors!!

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