{"id":73517,"date":"2022-03-10T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=73517"},"modified":"2022-04-25T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T06:58:23","slug":"cardiff-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-cricket-project-bats-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/cardiff-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-cricket-project-bats-for-change","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff refugees and asylum seekers: cricket project bats for change\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The four-week pilot is open to refugees and asylum seekers of all ages and genders and aims to help improve their wellbeing and prospects.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Cricket-1-1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>People of all ages and gender are invited to come along to the programme in Splott, Cardiff. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A cricket project is going to&nbsp;start this March to help asylum seekers and refugees&nbsp;integrate into their new communities in Cardiff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cricketwales.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cricket Wales<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lordstaverners.org\/how-we-help\/charitable-programmes\/wicketz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wicketz<\/a>, Cardiff Council and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oasiscardiff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oasis&nbsp;<\/a>have joined together to facilitate the four-week&nbsp;project where participants&nbsp;can meet new&nbsp;people, learn skills, improve their wellbeing and hopefully start to feel at home through sport.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organiser Mat Salley said: \u201cYou can see it in their faces, mentally they\u2019re torn but if you can get involved in sport it creates a bit of a team spirit.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst they are asylum seekers, they haven\u2019t got any recourse to funds. If you can develop that structure\u2026they don\u2019t have to hang round. They don\u2019t get depressed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s that massive aspect to their wellbeing.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It starts on 18 March in Splott and it is open to people of all ages and genders. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"533\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2-770x432.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2-293x164.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2-770x432.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/cricket-2-293x164.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption><strong>Mojeid Ilyas, top right, works at Cricket Wales and has worked on similar successful cricket programmes. Photo cred: Mojeid Ilyas<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mojeid Ilyas from Cardiff, who has been working as the&nbsp;Diversity Communities Development Officer for Cricket Wales for around a year, says that there are already 20 to 30 people expected to attend the first session.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is mirrored on previous successes&nbsp;like the&nbsp;six-week summer programme run by the Urdd and Cricket Wales for refugees and asylum seekers last summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was brilliant,\u201d said Mojeid about the summer programme. \u201cWe would go down there once a week on Tuesday mornings, and we\u2019d still have 20 to 30 kids.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think one session [it] was hailstones, but they just carried on playing.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mojeid believes the success is partly due to a familiarity with the sport as lots of the refugees come from places such as Afghanistan where cricket is popular. &nbsp;\u201cCricket is massive there,\u201d said Mojeid. \u201cIt was almost quite natural.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"2048\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-1024x2048.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-1024x2048.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-150x300.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-770x1540.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-768x1536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-293x586.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-1400x2800.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-scaled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-1024x2048.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-1024x2048.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-150x300.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-770x1540.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-768x1536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-293x586.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-1400x2800.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_00-scaled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UNCHR, in the year ending September 2021 there were 135,912\u202frefugees in the UK and 83,489 pending asylum cases. People from Afghanistan were the second largest group of people applying for asylum in the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many have settled in Cardiff. \u201cThere\u2019s quite a lot of Afghans who have settled in Cardiff, it\u2019s one of the dispersible areas,\u201d said Mat. \u201cThey\u2019re being dispersed throughout the city and Wales.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomos Barry, Development Officer of Wicketz, who is also involved in the project said it aims to break down boundaries. \u201cIt\u2019s just giving them a nice introduction in a safe environment,\u201d said Tomos.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSport has no language,\u201d said Mat. \u201cTheir English, the culture, the work ethic, whatever it might be, they will learn far more from the communities. [Sport] further embeds them in the community, it\u2019s not just sports for sports sake.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may also improve other skills, such as English language. \u201cWithin two weeks,\u201d said Mat, \u201cthere are people coming back to us who didn\u2019t have a word of English and all of a sudden, they have Cardiff accents.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Programmes like this also have the ability to change bigger narratives. \u201cSometimes when the talk is about refugees and asylum seekers it can be a little bit negative,\u201d said Mat. \u201c[They] change the focus and the narratives.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis-770x433.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis-293x165.jpeg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis-770x433.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/Oasis-293x165.jpeg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Oasis provides other sports activities for refugees and asylum seekers including football, cycling and volleyball. Photo cred: Adwitiya Pal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cricket has faced its own negative narrative recently in the UK, with inquiries into institutionalised racism led by professional player Azeem Rafiq.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mojeid, however, said: \u201cIn the last two years [Cricket Wales] has made massive strides in making cricket [a] more inclusive game\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomos also spoke of the inclusivity of the game, \u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of stuff about institutionalised racism within sports in the UK coming out over the last few months,\u201d said Tomos. \u201cGrowing up\u2026[I] didn\u2019t see much of that\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Mat, showcasing the talents of refugees and asylum seekers can really help to change people&#8217;s perceptions. \u201cWe\u2019re saying to clubs in Cardiff these guys are skilled. There is a mutual benefit. You need players and they need to learn\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The benefit for some clubs has been noticeable. Refugees and asylum seekers who started playing at Splott FC now make up most of the team, according to Mat. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cricket project is initially running for four weeks but there is a hope that it will continue to be&nbsp;run by volunteers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt works,\u201d said Mat, \u201cQuite often a result for us is if we don\u2019t see somebody again because what it often means is that they\u2019re really engaged and integrated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of a learning outcome, it\u2019s a massive win-win.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_Interactiveimage-1-1024x799.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/04\/001_Interactiveimage-1-1024x799.jpg 1024w, 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