Life In Another Town's video: The Yemeni asylum seeker poet - Shehab Alalimi - A letter to you - written in Napier Barracks

Mr Shehab Alalimi is the Yemeni poet and he wrote this letter to you, while he was residing in the Home Office Asylum Camp in Napier Barracks, Folkestone, Kent. Video Transcription: This letter is from an asylum seeker from Folkestone, from detention camp. I am from Yemen. I write it amid the sounds of rain and the cold of winter. To everyone who is interested, I want to say to you please help me now, I will help you later. We dont want anything, we just came here looking for safety, for freedom, for justice. We came because we heard that all are equal here. We live one life, let’s support each other. I am a person like you, I am not dangerous, I am no different, I feel like you, I love like others. Thanks for supporting me, thanks for helping me. I will never forget that, I will remember. We go through difficult days, you make it easier. I will never forget your support. I will always remember that, now and in the future. ---------- People like Shehab, seeking asylum in the UK, are not criminals. Yemen is in the midst of a terrible war. The civilian men, women and children are innocent victims. The UK supplies many of the weapons used by Saudi Arabia. UN humanitarian office puts the Yemen war dead at 233,000, mostly from ‘indirect causes’: disease and famine. People seeking refuge in the UK have rights which are protected by both UK and international law. if you want to help people seeking asylum in the UK, please visit www.care4calais.org