Holed up in hotels, evacuees are turning their thoughts to when and where they will be settled
After a hellish journey involving wading through sewage to reach Kabul airport and cramming into a military plane with no seats, Farukhzad was relieved beyond belief to reach England in August.
But after six weeks in a hotel, the UN worker was hungry for a taste of home. The Home Office pays for three meals a day for her, her husband, Farhad, and their three young boys, but the children in particular are struggling with the food in Manchester. “All they will eat are chips,” she despaired. “They like chips but chips are not good every day for their health.”
