‘I walked from Cardiff to London to encourage ethnic minority young people into leadership’
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Emma Fowle2022-03-29T10:59:00
Daud Irfan was six years old when his family fled persecution in Pakistan for a new life in Wales. Since then, he and his father have followed in the footsteps of their Methodist heroes, the Wesley brothers, by walking 170 miles to encourage diversity within the Church
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