Come to the UK as an asylum seeker in December 1989, fleeing political persecution. He has worked with a number of community organisations and sits on a school board in Hackney Council, he is also the director of Generation Roots.
I asked myself and I asked the members of the management community, the word "refugee": for how long shall we be refugees? Integration means you got to leave behind certain things, culture, language, customs and acquire new ones, more especially within the mainstream.
Now, when you keep telling people "I'm a refugee, I'm a refugee", you are sort of distancing yourself away from the mainstream and you cannot integrate because this connotation of refugee keeps coming back in your mind "I'm a refugee".
Now, we thought it's proper and appropriate to change the name from Uganda Refugee Welfare Association to Generation Roots. However, Generation Roots also has a connotation of refugee. Every one of us on earth has roots. What is your generation? Where did it begin? Where did it originate?
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