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Belfast refugees making a mark on Mourne mountains landscape

Started by admin, November 02, 2015, 05:04:06 PM

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Quote"I'm here to help my new friends to build a big wall, like the Chinese wall."

Zipping up a thick jacket and pulling on a pair of gloves, Mohammed is ready for a hard day's graft.

He is one of a number of refugees and asylum seekers living in Belfast who spend their spare time doing voluntary conservation and preservation work in the Mourne mountains in County Down.

In Algeria, his home country, he was a police officer, but "problems with my government and a terrorist group" forced him to flee.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34389279