Help Fund Language Exchange for Refugees
PROJECT
Organization: Al-Adli Justice
Support English/Arabic classes, legal literacy and transport so people can attend. We’re preparing a blueprint so others can start exchanges locally.
Budget
Transparent and open finances.
Credit from Deborah Nash to Help Fund Language Exchange for Refugees •
+£5.00GBP
Completed
Contribution #901558
Credit from Claire H to Help Fund Language Exchange for Refugees •
+£10.00GBP
Completed
Contribution #894435
Credit from Deborah Nash to Help Fund Language Exchange for Refugees •
+£5.00GBP
Completed
Contribution #901558
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Today’s balance£278.33 GBP
Total raised
£698.33 GBP
Total disbursed
£420.00 GBP
Estimated annual budget
£805.00 GBP
About
The Language & Solidarity Exchange:
Across the UK, refugees are facing increasing violence - hate crimes, protests outside their accommodation, and state hostility dressed up as policy.
The system is designed to silence them. Refugees aren’t allowed to attend college English classes until they’ve been here for six months, and even then, they’re expected to navigate legal systems, asylum interviews, and bureaucratic traps through broken translation and broken promises.
When language is denied, power is denied.
And when interpretation is outsourced to an underfunded system, truth gets lost.
That’s why we created the Language & Solidarity Exchange - an open, grassroots project teaching English, Arabic, and legal literacy side by side.
What We’re Doing:
Each week, we host English–Arabic exchange sessions open to all - refugees, migrants, and allies.
Each session includes:
- Language exchange - so refugees build confidence in English, and locals learn Arabic to bridge understanding.
- Legal literacy workshops - teaching the basics of rights, asylum law, housing, and public services - so people can advocate for themselves without relying solely on interpreters or caseworkers.
- A nourishing meal, cooked by or for refugees - a piece of home, and a moment of dignity.
- Books and legal–language materials, to break dependence on state intermediaries and equip people with real tools.
- Transport support, so no one is left out because of cost.
- A safe, trauma-informed venue - Beyt Al-Adl - built and held by people with lived experience of displacement and systematic exclusion.
Why It Matters:
The state doesn’t just neglect refugees - it actively disempowers them.
By keeping people linguistically dependent and legally uninformed, it keeps them vulnerable.
Underfunded interpreters and chaotic bureaucracy leave refugees misunderstood, misrepresented, and powerless in crucial moments - asylum interviews, housing meetings, healthcare appointments.
Our work can flip that script, but only with your support.
We teach refugees how to speak for themselves: in English and in law.
This isn’t charity.
This is how we fight back: with language, law, and love.
Because when refugees understand their rights and can speak their truth, they’re no longer “grateful guests”. They’re empowered residents of a community built on justice, not pity.
Every word learned, every legal term understood, every shared meal is a strike against fascism, fear, and silence.
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