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To help professionals in exile convert their qualifications to UK standards in order to be able to resume their interrupted careers after suffering persecution in their home countries due to their conscientious and courageous stance against oppression.
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Situation
Many prisoners of conscience in exile are highly qualified professionals, but are not able to access employment in the UK because their qualifications are not recognised by UK professional bodies.
Solution
To make financially possible the undertaking of a course of re-qualification or study of which the result is a substantive qualification of the kind required for commensurate employment in the UK. By commensurate, we mean commensurate with the overseas experience and qualifications of the prisoner of conscience concerned, whether scientist, engineer, doctor, lawyer etc.