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The word 'Empathy' has the same meaning in both Kurdish and Turkish -which literally translates as 'in feeling', is the capability to share and understand another's emotions and feelings.
Empathy provides a range of health-related services to Kurdish, Turkish, and Turkish Cypriot people, mainly refugees and asylum seekers in London.
The services include health advocacy, mental health outreach and support, counselling, family support and welfare rights advice for individuals and families who have been torn apart by war, torture and trauma.
Developed from within the communities and remaining firmly based within them Empathy has grown dramatically in response to growing need for its support and services.
Responding to need
It is estimated that around 450000 Turkish, Kurdish and Turkish Cypriot people live in UK . Most of these people are refugees or asylum seekers and reside in Hackney,Haringey and Greater London (UK)-London Boroughs in which we work.
Refugees and asylum seekers from Turkey have endured war, torture and other traumas. Fleeing from the place of their oppression they have discovered that in England their horrors are not left behind. Many suffer ongoing mental and physical health problems.
Living in an alien culture with ambivalent views about asylum seekers brings social exclusion, great stress and distress with it. A disproportionate number of them suffer from severe poverty and homelessness. Many have left families behind in Turkey. As they settle here more problems arise. Separation sometimes leads to the breakdown of families.
These are some of the problems in our communities that cause the unmet needs we are attempting to respond to.
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