Refugee Week 2020: #JoinUs
REFUGEE WEEK - SIMPLE ACTS
Day 8 - #jointhemovement
#RefugeeWeek isn’t just about focusing on related issues for a week - it’s about building momentum and uniting our communities in defence of what should always be universally acknowledged, respected, and upheld: human rights. It’s about saying enough is enough and refugees are welcome, always.
From campaigning and fundraising to volunteering and promoting refugee voices, there are countless ways you can continue to make a distinct positive impact in the fight for equality and justice. The team at Refugee Week have compiled a great list containing some specific ways you can keep on: https://refugeeweek.org.uk/simple-acts/join-the-movement/
From our point of view, whenever, however, and whatever you do to support refugees and human rights helps us in our mission. But if you want to support us more directly, here’s how:
1,796 people follow what we do on social media. If each one of you donated just £10 a month, we could sustain ALL of our work for the next YEAR.
That would cover EVERYTHING:
- the vital advocacy work and we do for young people being overlooked and exploited
- the 1-1 therapy services for young people in crisis
- the 1-1 educational support for young people struggling with language and schooling
-our Creative Arts Therapy, Recording Arranging Writing, and Group Music Classes
- our Young Leaders advisory and support group
- our COVID-specific offerings
- mental health support for our staff members
- our regular campaigns for justice
- our pastoral care mental health retreats
- our anti-isolation Half Term projects and cultural outings
- etc.
….EVERYTHING !
These days, with so much unknown, increasing hostility, and the biggest crunch on public funds in PFP history, we're facing the hardest times ahead and the members of our already vulnerable community are still at risk of exploitation, deportation, and relocation.
We CANNOT to stop our work. Our young people count on us to be there, day in and day out. Don’t take our word for it, though. Take theirs:
“PFP helps us to open our eyes to what rights we have in this country, help us to be better and we have a family in this country that can support us. It's also a source of our happiness. If we have a problem PFP is the first one we can go and ask.” - S
“PFP make you feel more at home...like you’re home with your family, very open with you. Always we friends like only families are. You are doing very well. Always on time, always doing the right thing. Even like pandemic time you're still continuing what you were doing before.” - Y
“Play for Progress is my family in England. Everyone here is my brother and sister and I want to be with you forever. Thank you to everyone in this group." - M
“We are here because you have done more than just the right thing. In other places they'd be focused just on [the activity] but you care about us and try to make us feel right and to speak with us. More than the right thing: done perfectly. PFP gives us love and hope and dreams for most of us who was sometimes harder to think about...here we see more and understand love and friendship and family with other eyes that we have before.” - I
If your own livelihood is not at risk, your support help would mean everything to us. Donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/play-for-progress
