16    Can’t Stay. Can’t Go. Refused asylum seekers who cannot be returned that they should give £50 a day, they will give you £20. You need money. You can either have something or nothing. So you take it and you are glad just to have something. They are happy; you are happy. But it gives you a down feeling. Like you are less. (Faheem, Palestine) The Red Cross, charities and churches The Red Cross provides a small amount of timelimited support to this destitute group: Red Cross give you some money – a little bit of money – but it helps a lot. I don’t need much – just a little bit of tuna and some bread. (Faheem, Palestine) Our refused asylum seekers mentioned support from various charities. Walid (Algeria) gets £15 per week from West End Refugee Service, a registered charity in Newcastle upon Tyne that supports asylum seekers and refugees. Kasim (Iraq) is given £10 per week by Justice First in Stocktonon-Tees, while City of Sanctuary Wakefield gives Samir (Algeria) £10 each week. Aman (Iraq) has been referred to a local church by the Glasgow Red Cross. The church gave him some money on two occasions. He also gets some money from the community-based organisation Govan and Craigton Integration Network: “Every week she gives me £4.” Aman finds it difficult to ask for money, especially as he comes from a wealthy family in Iraq: Really, I just feel embarrassed. I don’t like to continue going, begging. Because I haven’t got used to a situation like that. I was living in a very luxurious, good family. (Aman, Iraq) 3.3.4 Priorities when you have money Faheem (Palestine) spoke of the importance of making any money you have last as long as possible: If you have money, you don’t spend it all at once. You spend pound by pound. You squeeze that £20 pounds you got, because you don’t know when you might get something again. You can’t just spend it on nice food. How are you going to get food when it’s gone – you can’t steal it. (Faheem, Palestine) When he has money, Dawit (Eritrea) prioritises food. Kayla (Zimbabwe) prioritises food and toiletries. When Violet (Zimbabwe) has money, her priority is to give it to the friend she stays with to put towards groceries for the household. Walid (Algeria) buys “things like food, sandwiches sometimes; or a cheap jumper from Oxfam shop, charity shop; sometimes socks”. The lack of money can be dehumanising: Sometimes I keep some money to have a coffee in the morning in Caffè Nero, Costa, to feel like I’m still living. I mean I’m not an animal. They think I’m an animal. No, I’m human like anyone, yes. (Walid, Algeria) You want to see people, go to coffee shop; you want to go somewhere, you can’t. Sometimes, some friend say, “Can we go in coffee shop?” You shy to say, “I’m homeless”. You shy to say, “I don’t have money, and I don’t have support”. You make up something. You say, “Truly sorry, I’m busy”, or something. (Kasim, Iraq)