{"id":11603,"date":"2016-01-28T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:29:20","slug":"cardiffrefugeeslivingconditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/cardiffrefugeeslivingconditions","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff charity reveals refugees&#8217; living conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>After the wristband controversy, a Cardiff\u00a0charity says refugees face tough living conditions.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11607\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11607\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11607\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The Lynx House in Cardiff where refugees are housed. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11607\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The Lynx House in Cardiff where refugees are housed. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/01\/Lynx-House-Cardiff-Refugees-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The Lynx House in Cardiff where refugees are housed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asylum seekers in Cardiff are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jan\/28\/cardiff-asylum-house-at-centre-of-wristband-row-to-be-inspected\">facing poor living conditions<\/a> according to a Cardiff charity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Refugees at the Lynx House have been reported to have no communal space and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/jan\/30\/cardiff-asylum-house-removes-beds-overcrowding\">adults sharing a single room<\/a>. Instances of racism and physical assaults have been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdults are made to share a room, people who have never met each other before and might have totally different beliefs, this creates problems\u201d says Chloe Marong, coordinator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TrinityCentreCDF\/?fref=ts\">Trinity Centre<\/a> at Cardiff, explaining the plight of asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TrinityCentreCDF\/?fref=ts\">Trinity Centre<\/a> is working to help around 100 people through the group Cardiff Asylum Support Advocacy (CASA).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wristbands are a very bad idea for people that are already traumatised, but there are a lot of problems besides this\u201d, says Chloe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere 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\u201d, Chloe adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx House refused to respond when contacted.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the wristband controversy, a Cardiff charity says refugees face poor living conditions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":11607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[767],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice","tag-refugees"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff charity reveals refugees&#039; 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