Lancashire County Council's Community Development Coordinator Viktoriia Murych explains how they are helping Afghan women integrate into the community, inc by sewing incubater covers for premature babies. Credit: LCC
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00:00Hi, I'm digital reporter Amy Seddon. In Lancashire, a group of African refugees are using their
00:07sewing skills that kept them going under the Taliban to now help poorly babies across the
00:12county. In the following clip, Victoria Murek, Community Development Coordinator for Lancashire
00:19County Council, explains a bit more. I work as a Community Development Coordinator for
00:25Refugee Integration Team and part of my job to keep ladies from Vietnam busy. They are refugees
00:32from Afghanistan and my task and my personal desire to help them to integrate to local community.
00:39So that's why we have our weekly women's group where we can have colouring or sewing. I would
00:46like they feel more involved, you know, and also more visible. That's why we try to arrange
00:52different integration activities and involve them to help them to show their skills, talents. I'm
00:58absolutely happy and like honoured to be part of this project because it is just like communities,
01:04you know. They were refugees yesterday and today they have good impact and contribution to our
01:09local community and they are also very like grateful and they would like to contribute
01:14to do something good for other people. So and I think that's really absolutely amazing.