Our Vision & Values

Breaking down the Statement

Forced Migrants

The Baca Project wants to pioneer the use of 'forced migrant' to describe asylum seekers and refugees. The generic terms 'asylum seekers' and 'refugees' have a history of negativity that has built up over decades.

Welcomed

So often forced migrants hear and sense a feeling of distain about their arrival in the UK. We think it would be amazing would it be if the first words that a forced migrant heard was 'Welcome to our country'.

Communities

The UK is multi-cultural. We have an incredible mix of different races, languages, beliefs, values, traditions, histories, the list goes on! We want forced migrants to feel like they can integrate into our communities effectively through friendship building.

Releasing

We want to be an organisation that releases people to be themselves and to explore who they are. We want this to underline all our work with forced migrants, volunteers and staff.

Hope

Chambers dictionary defines hope as "a desire for something, with some confidence or expectation of success". Many forced migrants have hope when they travel to this country. They desire freedom and safety and believe it can happen. When they arrive their hope quickly diminishes in the face of adversity, struggle and potential return to unsafe futures. We want to address hope as something that can be worked on and invested into while they are in the UK and no matter what the outcome of their asylum case. We want to give them confidence and expectation that they will be and can be successful in their lives even if they are returned to their country.

New Possibilities

We want to open up new possibilities to forced migrants whether that be English learning, skill learning, friendship building, we want to take their dreams for their lives seriously and see what we can do to help whilst they remain in the UK and prepare them for the possible return to their home countries.

Shared Future

We believe that we all share the future. Although forced migrants can learn from the UK, they have experiences that we need to learn from. They give us a clearer worldview and we need to embrace their cultures and stories. We want to see that their time in the UK has been effective in instilling in them a sense of positive empowerment that they can bring about change back in their own countries.