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#COATS4CALAIS
Can you donate a coat to keep a refugee warm this winter? Over 3,000 refugees are currently sleeping rough in Northern France, and temperatures are rapidly dropping. Some as young as 13, with no access to clean clothes, water or shelter. So this holiday season our goal is to provide each and every one of…
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Free event at Manchester Metropolitan University – International Day for Tolerance – ‘Professional Action and Practice for Refugees and Displaced People’ Saturday 17 November 2018
As part of the International Day for Tolerance, our friends at Manchester Metropolitan University and PAPYRUS Team cordially invite you to this event which aims to: * promote organisations working with refugees, asylum-seekers and displaced people * create an open, listening and debating space for practitioners, researchers, stakeholders and relevant NGO’s in the broad areas…
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Upcoming free event – Online Arabic from Palestine and ‘Linguistic Hospitality’ – Migration Working Group Seminar 15th November 2018
Migration Working Group – North West invites you to the second seminar organised by the group at Edge Hill University. This seminar will focus on the process of online collaboration to design an Online Arabic language course.
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Where it all Began – A Stand and Be Counted Production
Imagine if everyone was ordered to return to their place of birth. The UK’s first Theatre Company of Sanctuary, Stand and Be Counted present a wild and vivid vision of the future, combining storytelling, movement and live music. Coming to Liverpool at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool 9th October. Tickets £10.50 (£8.50 concessions) Click here for…
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Language Support for Adult Refugees – A Council of Europe Toolkit
From the council of Europe website: The Council of Europe has developed the toolkit presented on this website (available in seven languages) to support member states in their efforts to respond to the challenges posed by unprecedented migration flows. It has been produced as part of the project Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants (LIAM) of the Council…
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Syrian Mothers’ Day Event in Liverpool 25 March 2018
Written by Mayya Al Safadi Diab. With the help of Refugee Action, an event was organised by members of the Syrian refugee community for Syrian ladies and children in Liverpool on the 25th of March 2018. Thanks to the active ladies and in co-ordination with Refugee Action, the event was a great success, it involved…
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Young asylum seekers ‘face blanket study ban’ The Guardian 8 April 2018
This article by Maeve McClenaghan highlights an important issue affecting the education of young asylum seekers. Colleagues in the FE sector have expressed great concern for the well-being and prospects for success of asylum seekers who access their adult provision. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/08/young-asylum-seekers-education-ban
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Demonstration in support of Eastern Ghouta Liverpool city centre, Sunday 25 February 2018
The Syrian community in Liverpool organised, at very short notice, a moving demonstration in support of their compatriots and, in some cases, former neighbours caught up in the siege of Eastern Ghouta. This was in response to the escalation of the attacks by Syrian government forces and Russian warplanes on Sunday 19 February. Hundreds of…