The Big Issue

‘WE NEED TO BE THE VOICES OF THOSE WHOSE VOICES HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM US’

Born and raised in North Kensington, Grenfell Tower was part of my everyday landscape. Whether it was gazing out my bedroom window at bedtime as the tower stood among a star-filled night sky, or reflecting in the garden with my late mother as the building peeked through the trees above. Or what I imagined to be the football stadium of people watching down on what we called ‘green pitch’ at the base

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