After the wristband controversy, a Cardiff charity says refugees face tough living conditions.
Asylum seekers in Cardiff are facing poor living conditions according to a Cardiff charity.
Refugees at the Lynx House have been reported to have no communal space and adults sharing a single room. Instances of racism and physical assaults have been revealed.
“Adults are made to share a room, people who have never met each other before and might have totally different beliefs, this creates problems” says Chloe Marong, coordinator of the Trinity Centre at Cardiff, explaining the plight of asylum seekers.
Trinity Centre is working to help around 100 people through the group Cardiff Asylum Support Advocacy (CASA).
The Lynx House in Cardiff has been found to make people wear coloured wristbands for them to be fed and those who did not wear them were not given food.
“The wristbands are a very bad idea for people that are already traumatised, but there are a lot of problems besides this”, says Chloe.
“There are children that are not able to go to school, the food is really bad and the place they stay in is overcrowded and has no communal spaces”, Chloe adds.
The Lynx House refused to respond when contacted.
According to reports, some of the refugees have expressed their unwillingness to wear them and have said that the time spent at this house has been one of the worst phases of their lives.