Mosayeb is a law graduate and writer from Iran. Here he performs a poem, written for Conversation Over Borders, about what improving his English means to him.

Alimam is from Sudan and has been learning English with Conversation Over Borders. In this film, he tells us about the challenges of being an asylum seeker in the UK; how it is illegal for him to work and he is unable to choose where he lives until he receives his refugee status from the Home Office. He speaks of his hopes for the future and his aim to write a book about the refugee experience in Europe. Alimam walked for ten hours to reach the infamous Calais Jungle, where he lived for ten months before making it to the UK.

Emily, one of our volunteers, makes a vegan Gormeh Sabzi while on Zoom with her Conversation Over Borders partner.