Sam is a Campaigns Assistant for The Global Poverty Project. He has a background in public affairs and communications and his writing has previously been featured in New Statesman. In his spare time, he is a committed campaigner for social and gender equality and plays in a hardcore punk band. Once, he saw Woody Allen coming out of a hotel but was too scared to talk to him.
When my mother came over to Britain, having been kicked out of Uganda by Idi Amin, she remembers someone handing her a blanket and saying ‘you’re welcome here’. That is the kind of world I want to help create.
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