In 2018, Winchester couple Bruce and Linda Alexander floated the idea of hosting a refugee, asylum seeker, or migrant in their home. They were both retired, albeit still actively involved as a volunteer (in Bruce’s case) and a part-time ESOL educator (in Linda’s case) for immigrant advocacy groups. Importantly, they had space in their three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath home.
But it wasn’t until they received an urgent call from the director of a resettlement agency asking them if they were interested in temporarily hosting a middle-aged woman asylum seeker from Uganda that they became a host home.
