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<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:
normal'>Taken from the Norwich Evening News and Eastern Daily Press last week:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:16.5pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font
size=5 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:black'>Norwich</span></font></b></st1:City></st1:place><font
size=5 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'> refugees tell their stories on radio<o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
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text-transform:uppercase'><a href="mailto:mary.hamilton@archant.co.uk"
style='border-width:initial;border-color:initial'><font color="#666666"><span
style='color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>MARY HAMILTON</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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initial'><b><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>19 March 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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margin-left:0cm;line-height:9.75pt;border-width:initial;border-color:initial'><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Iraqi and Congolese refugees living in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Norwich</st1:place></st1:City> are learning to tell their stories
and boost their skills with the help of a community radio station.<br>
<br>
Six men from the International Men's Project have been training for four weeks
at Future Radio, discovering how to use the station's audio equipment and
studio space to create their own broadcasts.<br>
<br>
And when their course finishes they will be broadcasting a series of monthly
radio programmes telling the stories of their struggles and bringing
information and advice to other <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norwich</st1:place></st1:City>
refugees.<br>
<br>
Ali Al-tameemi, 31, said: “We would like to tell our stories and to
introduce ourselves to other people.<br>
<br>
“We would like to interview people from organisations that give us social
support, and talk about how we can get in touch with them.<br>
<br>
“There are about 70 Iraqi refugees in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Norwich</st1:place></st1:City> now and many people do not know about
us - they think we are Portuguese or from other places. We want to make our
voices heard.”<br>
<br>
Ahmed Husson, 29, who lives in <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Golding
Place</st1:address></st1:Street> in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norwich</st1:place></st1:City>,
said: “For us it is about telling our stories and finding some solutions
to our problems.<br>
<br>
“We left large families in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> and now we live alone in our
flats. We come from different cultures. But perhaps we can try and find
different solutions to these problems.”<br>
<br>
Rafid Al-maliki, who lives on <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Mousehold
Street</st1:address></st1:Street> in <st1:City w:st="on">Norwich</st1:City>,
was a journalist in <st1:City w:st="on">Basra</st1:City> before coming to the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span
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<br>
The 35-year-old said he found <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norwich</st1:place></st1:City>
“a nice but quiet city”, adding: “It's hard to find a job
here.<br>
<br>
“This workshop helps us improve our skills and we can put it on our CVs.
We can use this to help ourselves and to help other people.”<br>
<br>
The three men, who all came to this country as refugees after working with
British troops in Basra, hoped the training and their radio shows would help to
bring the community of Iraqi refugees in Norwich together and help them
integrate with the rest of the city.<br>
<br>
Mr Al-tameemi, who lives on <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">Thorpe
Road</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Norwich</st1:City></st1:address>,
added: “We want to give the favour back.”<br>
<br>
Future Radios volunteer coordinator Simone Hayes, who has been working with the
men for the last month, said: “As a community station we aim to give
voices to communities that do not necessarily normally have a voice.<br>
<br>
“We try to help people develop skills that will help them get volunteer
placements or work afterwards, and we try to give people the opportunities to
make themselves be heard.”<br>
<br>
Station manager <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Tom Buckham</st1:PersonName> said:
“I think projects like this are highly important if not essential to be
included in <st1:City w:st="on">Norwich</st1:City>'s City of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Culture</st1:place></st1:City> bid.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>
<br>
“Culture means many different things - you have high culture such as the
cathedral but you also have an emerging multiculturalism in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Norwich</st1:place></st1:City> that not many people outside the city
tend to be aware of.<br>
<br>
“For those people who work more closely with community groups it's clear
that all these things contribute towards <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norwich</st1:place></st1:City>
being a culturally rich city.”<br>
<br>
How to Back the Bid<br>
<br>
Send your ideas or volunteer to contribute by emailing
cityofculture@norwich.gov.uk.<br>
<br>
Tell us about events, projects or groups you're involved with by calling 01603
772418 or emailing mary.hamilton@archant.co.uk.<br>
<br>
Tell us why you're backing the bid by emailing mary.hamilton@archant.co.uk or
calling 01603 772418.<br>
<br>
Show your support and let us know about events happening where you are by
joining the Norwich 2013 Facebook group at www.tinyurl.com/Norwich-2013.<br>
<br>
Follow the Evening News Back the Bid campaign on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/norwichculture.<br>
<br>
Read more about the City of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Culture</st1:place></st1:City>
bid at www.en24.co.uk/culture.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Station Manager, Future Radio</span></font></b><font
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color:black'><br>
01603 455250</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=gray face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:gray'>Future is a social inclusion project that uses the arts and media
to engage, inspire and train young people and adults in </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><ns0:City
w:insAuthor="t.buckham" w:insDate="2010-03-24T18:51:00Z"
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color=gray><span style='color:gray'>Norwich</span></font></ns0:City><font
color=gray><span style='color:gray'> and </span></font><ns0:City
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7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:gray'>Fax; (01603) 508096<br>
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font-family:Arial'><ns0:address w:insAuthor="t.buckham"
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color=gray><span style='color:gray'>Motum Rd</span></font></st1:Street></ns0:Street></st1:address><font
color=gray><span style='color:gray'>, </span></font><ns0:City
w:insAuthor="t.buckham" w:insDate="2010-03-24T18:51:00Z"
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w:insAuthor="t.buckham" w:insDate="2010-03-24T18:51:00Z"
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color=gray><span style='color:gray'>Norfolk</span></font></ns0:City><font
color=gray><span style='color:gray'>, </span></font><ns0:PostalCode
w:insAuthor="t.buckham" w:insDate="2010-03-24T18:51:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="t.buckham" w:endInsDate="2010-03-24T18:51:00Z"><font
color=gray><span style='color:gray'>NR5 8EG</span></font></ns0:PostalCode></ns0:place><font
color=gray><span style='color:gray'>. </span></font><br>
<font color=gray><span style='color:gray'>Registered charity number 113200</span></font></span></font><b><font
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