In the year ending September 2021, the top five countries of nationality for asylum applications (from main applicants) were: Iran (6,002), Eritrea (4,412) Albania (4.010),  Iraq (3,042) and Syria (2,303).

Housing is provided, but asylum-seekers cannot choose where it is, and it is often ‘hard to let’ properties which Council tenants do not want to live in.

Cash support is available, and is currently set at £39.63 per person, per week, which makes it £5.64 a day for food, sanitation and clothing.

The Survival Kit must be no larger than 148 x 105 x 105 mm.

In your design process you must consider the entire lifecycle of the packaging and its relationship to the product: ie source, print, assemble, pack, preserve, ship, display, purchase, use, recycle/dispose.

Consider how each stage of the process reflects your brand and its values.

Your kit should include a leaflet introducing your brand and kit usage instructions in your brand’s tone of voice.

The UN’s Refugee Agency estimates that 86% of the world’s refugees are sheltered by developing countries. Therefore its poorer countries that take in the most refugees

Britain is not Europe’s top recipient of asylum applications. Germany, Sweden, France, Hungary, Italy and Austria all receive significantly more applications than we do. 

Together, Germany and Hungary receive over half of all applications made in the EU.

Unaccompanied children are far less likely than adults to be granted refugee protection. Overall, 34% of decisions on asylum applications were specifically grants of asylum, compared to just 27% for separated children. Instead, many separated children are granted short term leave to remain which expires after 2.5 years.

62% of all people seeking asylum wait longer than six months for a decision

An estimated 35 million (42%) of the 82.4 million forcibly displaced people are children below 18 years of age.