I have received this request Nyon resident, Corinne Desarzens, if you think you can help her, please reply to the following email c.desarzens@bluewin.ch
In mid February 2009, a hundred asylum seekers arrived in Nyon, and are now housed underground in a bunker near the Migros homestore. All “Dublin cases”, via an European transit country (Italy, Malta, Spain, France, Greece), all men between the ages of 18 to 35. Most of them come from English-speaking African countries, including Ghana, Eritrea and Somalia, from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Sri-Lanka. Many have been sent back to the transit country, may others have recently arrived. A few are stiil here since the start..
Every Thursday I teach French lessons to about ten of them. Those who managed to make it here survived extreme conditions and went through impressive experiences. They are brilliant, each in his own personal way, and may be fully trusted.
Asylum seekers are allowed to work after a three month period. Being an asylum seeker, waiting to hear one’s fate, has much to do with time passing. How to use one’s time. For a few of them I have been looking for small jobs, in some cases very successfully : in a garage, a garden-centre, in a bio-medical enterprise, picking fruit and later grape picking, mowing grass and cleaning houses.I am looking to widen any possibilitiy for them, even for a short time : do not hesitate to contact me for any activity related to daily life, including hiring extra/s when throwing a party, helping the elderly, gardening, cleaning windows, walking dogs. Hourly wages welcome”.
If you think you can help by offering any kind of tempoary work then email c.desarzens@bluewin.ch and please not to Living in Nyon