Yes, asylum seekers are “Men and women like us” (25 April). Letting 1,700 fellow human beings die in the Mediterranean, this year, is wicked. The rest of Europe and the global community must alleviate some of Libya’s and southern Europe’s anguish. But meanwhile, what practical help can we, ordinary parishioners, offer, faced with the scale of this problem?We can find the nearest asylum and refugee centres to us, places run on shoestring budgets that struggle to meet the current unprecedented demands. We can go and meet the asylum seekers and refugees who are living in our communities, people who have been “processed, despatched and dispersed” to use the dehumanising language of the Home Office. We can counter the prevailing policy of non- integration, w