{"id":3135,"date":"2020-07-03T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/a-tool-that-break-barriers-is-opportunity-a-journey-beyond-victimhood"},"modified":"2020-07-03T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:39:00","slug":"a-tool-that-break-barriers-is-opportunity-a-journey-beyond-victimhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/a-tool-that-break-barriers-is-opportunity-a-journey-beyond-victimhood","title":{"rendered":"A tool that break barriers is opportunity; a journey beyond victimhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this with so much gratitude to JCWI. How JCWI helped me by giving a place at their internship programme is the core of this piece. From 2010 to 2018 I lived my life in darkness as an asylum seeker. I am a survivor from an ethnic minority background in Sri Lanka. I came to the UK as a 17-year-old, knowing no one and unable to speak a word of English. I was put up in a cold garage before being forced into homelessness.<br \/>\nI survived through these episodes with help from food banks, friends and asylum seeker support networks. I was given poor advice regarding legal representation and ended up being neglected by various private solicitors. The Home Office did not recognise me as a refugee, and I was detained in 2014 and 2015. Since then, I have turned my pain and suffering into passion and motivation to step up to study law and work for the betterment of other asylum seekers suffering like I have.\u202f\u202f<br \/>\nI knew that to fight the system, I needed to understand it. In 2017, I was succ&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this with so much gratitude to JCWI. How JCWI helped me by giving a place at their internship programme is the core of this piece. From 2010 to 2018 I lived my life in darkness as an asylum seeker. I am a survivor from an ethnic minority background in Sri Lanka. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}