News & Stories

Inspiring Women: How Alesha is ‘Doing it Alone’

February 21, 2020

Data shows that female migrants are more vulnerable to discrimination and mistreatment than their male counterparts (Migration Data Portal, 2020), […]

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Inspiring Women: Florence’s Struggle into UK Employment

February 14, 2020

Data shows that female migrants are more vulnerable to discrimination and mistreatment than their male counterparts (Migration Data Portal, 2020), […]

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Empowering Migrants Through Hairdressing

February 13, 2020

Written by Sahar Sharifi, Communications Officer at CRMC. It all started with an idea of a pamper day for the […]

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Turning Wolverhampton Houses into Homes

February 12, 2020

On January 28th, City of Wolverhampton Council (MiFriendly Cities partner) launched a mobile pop-up furniture factory to provide training and […]

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Welcome ‘Spring Action’ to the MiFriendly Family

Written by Sahar Sharifi, Communications Officer at CRMC. Spring Action Cleaning was re-launched under the European Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) […]

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Meet social entrepreneur Ali Abdul: How holistic support is helping refugees fulfil their goals

July 10, 2019

Since launching in March 2018, MiFriendly Cities has been developing a holistic employment and skills initiative which aims to go […]

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Refugee Week: MiFriendly Cities Refugee Entrepreneurship & Skills Event

June 17, 2019

Birmingham is celebrating Refugee Week with a series of events starting on Monday (17 June) which will showcase success stories […]

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Social Innovation Pitch Day

May 13, 2019

On Saturday 30 March, MiFriendly Cities held its Social Innovation Pitch Day in Birmingham, where a panel of judges and […]

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Launching Coventry’s Pop-up Furniture Factory

May 7, 2019

Housing represents one of the most common reasons for migrants and refugees seeking support, but poor quality housing is also […]

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