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**Damien** · 16-03-2016, 13:12

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Originally Posted by Osem

I've yet to hear of a single celebrity luvvie, politician or VIP who's put up a single migrant. What I have heard is those same people telling us we should do the right thing having done precious little themselves. Well I'd like our govt. to do the right thing by the people it serves before they start taking on the rest of the world's needy. I'd also like the usual suspects to either put up or shut up.

Emma Thompson seems to have done quite a bit to be fair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_T...#Personal_life

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Also in 2003, Thompson and her husband informally adopted a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier named Tindyebwa Agaba. They met at a Refugee Council event when he was 16, and she invited him to spend Christmas at their home. "Slowly," Thompson has commented, "he became a sort of permanent fixture, came on holiday to Scotland with us, became part of the family." Tindy became a British citizen in 2009.

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She is particularly active in human rights work. As an ambassador for the charity ActionAid she has travelled to Uganda, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Liberia, and Burma. She is chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, a patron of the Refugee Council and has a therapy room in her office for traumatised refugees