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Hello. There is an

Anonymous — Thu, 03/11/2010 - 18:21

Hello. There is an organisation which helps people in you situation, it is called "Medical Foundation - for the care of victims of torture". Their website is http://www.torturecare.org.uk/

They offer lots of different kinds of help and support from counselling, group therapy, physical therapy and psychotherapy.
There are interpreters for many many languages if you are not too comfortable in English. Here is a list of the languages they can interpret:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Bambara, Burmese, Croatian, Dari, Dioula, Farsi, French, Fullah, Fur, Hindi, Horami, Hungarian, Kashonke, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirmanji, Kirundi, Koniaka, Krio, Lingala, Luganda, Malinke, Mandingo, Mandinka, Mandarin, Mongolian, Odieneka, Oromo, Pashtoo, Portuguese, Punjabi, Runyankole, Russian, Sarahule, Serbo Croatian, Shona, Sinhalese, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Tigre, Tigrinya, Tshiluba, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and Wolof.

You can be referred to the Medical Foundation or refer yourself. Referrals are often made by Migrant Helpline (http://www.migranthelpline.org.uk/) and
Refugee Council (http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/).

Do contact one of these organisations because they can help you.

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