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Pos­i­tive Action for Refugees and Asy­lum Seek­ers (PAFRAS) works with asy­lum seek­ers, refugees and local com­mu­ni­ties in Leeds and the sur­round­ing area.

PAFRAS focuses on pro­vid­ing human­i­tar­ian sup­port for asy­lum seek­ers who are home­less, with­out food or money and pre­vented from improv­ing their sit­u­a­tion by gov­ern­ment pol­icy. PAFRAS runs a twice-weekly drop-in at which we pro­vide, a hot meal and case­work sup­port amongst other ser­vices. We cur­rently receive an aver­age of just under 700 vis­its each month.

Vision

End­ing des­ti­tu­tion, cre­at­ing a just society.

Aims & Objectives

Our objec­tives are to:

• reduce the effects of des­ti­tu­tion and poverty,
• improve phys­i­cal and men­tal health and well-being,
• sup­port access to main­stream ser­vices and inte­gra­tion, and
• raise aware­ness amongst local communities.