My name is Mohamed Hussein Abdi and I'm originally from Hargeisa in Somalia. I'm 32 years old. I live in Leeds at the moment. I work as a maintenance engineer in a big hotel in Leeds.

I'm sorry for Somali youths (in Leeds) who are selling drugs and doing bad things. Some young Somalis have a lot of problems. They need help and the government is not helping.

There isn't a Somali community at all really in Leeds and there's no organisation that is helping them.

Selling drugs

Mohamed often works 12 hour shifts to earn enough money to visit his family who live outside the UK

I hope somebody will help because otherwise they go with the bad people. They sell drugs and do many wrong things.

Some of them come from very tough areas. They've been living in war zones. When they were growing up there they had to be survivors.

When they come here they think they will have a better life in England or other places in Europe. But really life here (in England) is very tough, you have to work, you have to go to school, you have to stand on your own feet.

When they come here nobody helps them. Maybe their parents don't know languages, they don't know mathematics or have other education. So then they go with other people who are bad people.

Find their way back

I know a lot of young people who do that. Some of them when you talk to them are very nice people but they need to find their way back. They need more support.

In his limited spare time Mohamed plays football

When they go looking for work they say to them 'we don't have any work'.

Some of these young Somalis they don't speak English. They don't integrate into the system - that's the problem.

It's easy for them to get involved with bad people because that's very easy work but they don't know what they're doing and it's very wrong. Some (Somali) girls also are involved in this too.

When they (young Somalis) come to this country they think that everything is free that's the problem. They are confused people. The government has to help them, the British government. It's not good for Somalis and it's not good for here.

I like to follow good ways. I like to help people. I don't try to sell drugs. People die when drugs are sold. I care about people. I'm lucky that I am who I am. I think it's a gift. I have a good family and follow a good religion.