Tomorrow, on the eve of World Refugee Day, on a Royal racecourse at the heart of the British establishment, a young Darfuri refugee will lead up the racehorse Shadn at the Commonwealth Cup.
Abdul Musa Adam is the young rider-groom who looks after and exercises Shadn at Andrew Balding’s Park House stables, 3,000 miles from the Sudanese village where his family were killed when he was a child.
He is also my friend – we’ve been writing a book together for three years, which is due out in the autumn. Last October, Abdul, 22, became a British citizen.
He couldn’t be a better example of what safety and kindness can give to a human being who has escaped war, torture and trafficking after becoming a refugee at the age of eight.
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