Senior play development worker Yvonne Smillie of the North Glasgow Mobile Childcare Service, who took part in the SINA programme, first came into contact with the young children of asylum seekers when she was working in Sighthill a year ago.
Yvonne says, 'When one country hits the news, for example Afghanistan, you are very aware of asylum seekers from there but you don't realise there are other ones. I didn't realise how many different countries were represented.
It is a huge number.'
She says the first, basic problem was communication. 'Although I am tone deaf I love doing music. But sitting down in a creche with these children, we were doing "The wheels on the bus go round and round", and I realised that the children had no idea what it was about.
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