A refugee has said that taking up boxing at a centre which is supported by Sport England “saved” her life.
Dr Zin Myint said she was in a “bad place” after arriving in the UK three months ago having fled Myanmar in South East Asia because of a thesis she wrote on the Rohingya conflict.
She began boxing at St Augustine’s Centre in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Dr Myint told the PA news agency: “I have a lot of mental issues and I’ve been going to the boxing gyms every week, which is very helpful.
“The centre means the world to me.
“It saved my life as when I came here three months ago, I was in a bad place.”
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