Kindness Cafe

The Kindness cafe in Todmorden has offered to provide lunch, snacks, fruit and drinks to the asylum seekers and refugees when they visit Todmorden for 8 days during the school Summer holiday. Not only are they preparing the lunch they are also serving it in the cafe. You can find the Kindness cafe’s website here: […]

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Healthy Holiday activities

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Thanks to a large grant from @Calderdalefound we can now offer Summer activities for school children of refugees and asylum seekers on free school meals. These activities will happen over a four-week period from 9th August to 3rd September from Tuesdays to Fridays. Tuesdays and Thursdays they will be on Todmorden for activities organised by […]

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Another poem from Hina

“Happiness with in You” I’m called happiness, I’m here to cuddle you, I’m here to love you unconditionally. I come in the form of mother, a lover , a friend, a family . You can find me anywhere within You, Look ! Look inside and here I lie, wake me up, shake me up, make […]

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Poem from Hina

Here is my another poem from Hina called lay me down my love! A little background! It’s a communication between a diary of a asylum seeker/refugee. Where he /she lost her diary, and the diary is talking her heart out to the person. Lay me down my love, Lay me down deep. Where no pain, […]

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Do you want to hire live music?

If you would like live music to a public or private event this band is made up of a mixture on nationalities and play music and songs from a variety of countries. They played in the Piece Hall in Halifax during Refugee Week and they got people dancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVA7nfWhdbI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVA7nfWhdbI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTh_uJhaZ4 If you are interested […]

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Little Theatre

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Thank you to Little Theatre in Hebden Bridge for inviting experts by experience (refugees and asylum seekers) to visit the theatre and see if any of them want to be volunteers there. Six came and two more might be interested. After over an hour at the theatre we went to Leila’s Kitchen for some lunch. […]

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