Cara Delevingne stands up for detained schoolgirl

Posted by theo on Mar 25, 2014 in News | 0 comments

English model-of-the-moment Cara Delevingne has recently joined a social media campaign in support of a Mauritian schoolgirl who is currently battling imminent deportation, after the Home Office ministerial department refused her appeal to stay in the United Kingdom.

“The Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP, Home Secretary: #FightforYashika Stop this sixth form student being deported alone,” the twenty-one year-old fashion model and sicalite called for action via her official Twitter account. “She deserves a future!”

Yashika Bageerathi, who is currently being detained at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Centre in Bedfordshire, emigrated to the British capital with her family at the age of sixteen, in 2012, after reportedly escaping an “extremely dangerous” relative who had been physically abusing her. Due to her age, her application to stay in the UK was considered separately to that of her mother and younger siblings because she is considered an adult now at nineteen. Thus, could be deported alone if a further application fails.

On Sunday, fellow schoolmates of Bageerathi’s Oasis Academy Hadley organized a protest outside the British Home Office and handed in a letter to Home Secretary Theresa May asking her to reconsider their friend’s application. The Mauritian student had been recently offered a place at the Queen Mary University of London.

“I’m really scared,” Bageerathi told the Evening Standard. “They were very violent towards me and my mum since I was a child. I didn’t have any friends out there because of that situation. I never thought I would have so many friends as I do now. I came to know what it’s like to interact with people. I was a girl who never had a voice, but here I am free.”