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Fahim Zazai says families who have been evacuated from Afghanistan need help rebuilding new lives, and as a former asylum seeker he gives all the support he can.

He knows how difficult it is to leave loved ones behind and make a treacherous journey to a new country where you know no one. Twenty-two years ago, Zazai fled the Taliban and was smuggled to the UK illegally from Afghanistan in the back of a lorry. He was 18 and didn’t know a word of English.

Zazai, now 42, remembers feeling a mixture of trepidation and elation. “It was scary,” he admits. “I felt so much uncertainty about going to a place where I didn’t know the language and I was so sad at leaving all my family behind. But I also felt happy to be free of the dangers in Afghanistan and [about] the chance of a new life.”

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