Teji Sond describes his experience of being forced to leave Uganda in 1972. His family went to Heathfield Resettlement Camp in Devon. Teji went on to become a highly successful process engineer. He has a passion for playing and coaching hockey, and he co-founded the Bristol Indians Hockey Club.
Ugandan Journeys is a three-series set of video programmes to document the stories of British volunteers who aided the Asian migrants forced to leave Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972/3. The programmes further include testimonies from residents and people who worked in the camps.
This oral history project - British Ugandan Asians at 50 (BUA50.ORG) - is the production of the India Overseas Trust with the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund. It is an integral part of British volunteering heritage and an extraordinary historical episode that helped shape
modern Britain's diversity.
The Heathfield Resettlement Camp in Devon was used primarily as a holding camp, to which the expellees were brought after arrival at Stansted Airport and before being sent to other camps or found homes in the local area. There is not anything left of the campsite. The area is now a retail centre and adjoined by council buildings.
12 окт 2024
