Do you know a refugee who has made an important contribution to London?

The Refugee Communities History Project reaches its next stage, we are now looking for members of kurdish community we are working with this year to be interviewees.

The people we interview have to have been refugees or Asylum seekers when they arrived in the UK and have to live or have lived in London.

We want to map the contributions refugees have made to the capital. However, this does not mean we are only looking for people with high profiles. We want to record the experiences of ordinary people who may have made a contribution through work, voluntary work, bringing up a family, education etc.

If you are the person or know anyone whose contribution to London or achievements should be recorded please contact the kurdish fieldworker Mr Adnan Shaswar in kurdish Association.

Or my self kameel Ahmady member of the project’s steering committee by e-mail: Kameel14@hotmail.com    Mob 07958647705

Best Wishes,

Kameel Ahmady

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EVELYN OLDFIELD UNIT
356 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA

Tel: (020) 7700 0100
Fax: (020) 7700 8136
e - mail: jess@evelynoldfield.co.uk

 
Re: Refugee Community History Project

The project started on the 1^st November 2004 and it will finish on the 31^st August 2005. I am responsible for collecting a minimum of 10 oral history interviews from Kurdish individual refugees living in Greater London.

The project will demonstrate the cultural, social and economic contributions / achievements made by members of the Kurdish community living in London since 1951. The project will seek to be as representative of the overall refugee community as is reasonably possible by way of date of arrival, geographical area of origin and equal opportunities considerations such as age, gender and cultural identity.

The project is the outcome of discussions over the past two years between Refugee Community Organisations, the Evelyn Oldfield Unit, the Museum of London, the London Metropolitan University, Resource Unit for Supplementary and Mother - tongue Schools, the Vietnamese Oral History Project and the City Parochial Foundation.

The Unit is leading / co-ordinating the project, the Museum will archive and exhibit the individual histories which the project will gather and the University will train the staff employed to record them.

The project is funded by Heritage Lottery and the Trust for London.

These personal histories will be archived and exhibited at the Museum of London along with those collected from the other communities and Kurdish Association will also be able to use the recordings creatively for its own purposes.

To nominate yourself or others as possible interviewees please contact us that we could send you a copy of  “Nomination Form” then you can post it addressed to the Oral History Project to either the Evelyn Oldfield Unit or the Kurdish Association.  Interviewees will be asked to take in two interviews of two hours each, which will be conducted by the Kurdish Association fieldworker.

Our project’s Steering Committee will shortlist the applications according to certain standards and will inform the successful nominees about the project’s process, terms and conditions.

If you are the person or know anyone whose contribution to London or achievements should be recorded please contact the kurdish fieldworker Mr Adnan Shaswar in kurdish Association.

Or my self kameel Ahmady member of the project’s steering committee by e-mail: Kameel14@hotmail.com             

Or: 07958647705