In this week's Chops, our Mickey Noonan talks to Laura Kyrke-Smith, director of communications at International Rescue Committee, Europe, an organisation doing incredible work to help refugees in the short and long term. She also chats to Yasmin Kadi (pictured), musician, actor – and refugee. Yasmin and her family were forced to flee their home in Sierra Leone during the blood diamond war and her story is a powerful reminder that we need to look out for, and look after, our fellow humans.

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SIM Ep 127 Chops 41: Refugee Week 2018