This summer JVC welcomed Goda Venckaityte, Jacques St Laurent, Eurelija Venskaityte and Kinga Kovacs to volunteer with homeless people and refugees in Manchester.
Kinga shares some of her thoughts on the programme…
I am not just happy but very grateful I could take part in both projects: the Rainbow Haven and the Cornerstone. I never faced what in reality means to be an asylum seeker. When I got to know that I was going to work with them I had to look the word up in my dictionary, I didn’t know what it meant. During this month I learnt so much about them, their lives, their feelings and fates, the process they have to go through ….I think I woke up to reality this summer! I thought England was the lords’ field, the home of castles, green grass, good-manner and wealth. Now I faced totally another face of the country. I am really pleased, I learnt there a lot about myself as well facing so much cruelty that people suffer near me.
Cornerstone also taught lots of things to me, I learnt forever: “Look at the person not to the problem”.
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