Robin Shawyer, executive director of the Windle Trust, will be presenting a talk on ‘The Life of a Displaced Person’.This is a joint event between Afrinspire and STAR (Student Action for Refugees).

Afrinspire has a major programme of support towards internally displaced people from Bududa who have been relocated to Kiryandongo refugee settlement in Uganda, taking up space previously occupied by Sudanese refugees.

Robin Shawyer has extensive experience with the issues faced by refugees in East Africa. He has been working to support Sudanese refugees for more than a decade, including those who were at Kiryandongo. Robin has also personally experienced the difficulties persecuted groups face, as he was imprisoned in Kenya for assisting refugees. Later, he came with his family to the UK as a refugee himself, where he played a part in initiating STAR.

Robin will be telling us some of his own life story and the experiences which led him to work at the Windle Trust, as well as talking about the lives of the the refugees whom the Trust supports.