Iryna Petkevica
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Iryna is a Client support advisor who works for Social Security Scotland and volunteers for Citizens Rights Project as interpreter and OISC immigration level 1 advisor. She is a former seasonal worker who worked in the Scottish Agricultural and Processing sector for over 10 years. She also has a degree in Business Management. Iryna worked as a human trafficking and labour exploitation outreach worker on the Worker Support Centre pilot project at Just Right Scotland outreach worker and for Fife Migrants Forum staffing a RSABI run helpline for seasonal workers between 2020-2022. She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and English.
As a farm worker in the past Iryna has always wanted to help and improve the current situation that seasonal workers face. She believes that every person, who comes to work in the UK, must have an equal opportunity to be treated with dignity and respect and have an access to information regarding their rights.