Our Spotlighting Refugee Stories series continues! This time, we speak to Thu To comparing her experience in the UK and its culture from first impressions to years of lived experience and what she hopes younger generations will embrace about the opportunities being in the UK provides.

Our Spotlighting Refugee Stories series continues as we speak to local Vietnamese ‘hero’, Jack Shieh, OBE. He shares with us the challenges he faced leaving Vietnam from separating and then reuniting with family to establishing himself in a foreign land and the lessons he wants younger generations to take with them.

Continuing our Spotlighting Refugee Stories series, we hear to Hanh Hoang as she recount her arduous experience leaving Vietnam, which includes an encounter with pirates on the open sea.

What better way to launch our interview series in honour of Refugee Week, than by starting with well-known and prominent figure in the Vietnamese community, Reverend Simon Thang Duc Nguyen (Father Simon), Parish Priest.