Refugee professionals
A significant proportion of refugees come from professional backgrounds. Well educated and in positions of responsibility, they are often the first to be targeted by oppressive regimes. Teachers, for example, have been targeted in Zimbabwe as MDC supporters and many have fled the country. The voluntary sector has developed specific initiatives to help, amongst others, doctors, nurses, teachers and accountants back into their professions here in the UK. A crucial component of these initiatives is establishing how many of each profession are looking to take up return to those sectors in the UK.
These pages provide more information on the work Employability Forum is or has been involved with, and provides signposting to voluntary sector agencies who are able to help refugees on a one to one basis: