With 40 tickets to see Snow White at the Hippodrome Theatre in Todmorden we took asylum seekers and refugees there for the 2pm performance. Prior to that we had first arrived at the Central Methodist Church in Todmorden for a drink and a snack before taking all the children to the park while the parents […]
Rochdale2Aleppo raised £16,611,57 and spent it all on food, clothes, medical equipment, etc to fill three 40 foot lorries. A local school in the Upper Calder Valley has offered to organise another collection. Perhaps other schools want to join. Another local school is investigating arranging a day of activities for the asylum seekers and refugees […]
Finished packing the 2000 food parcels for Syria Friday evening at 9pm. The women on the picture hold three of the food parcels. Yesterday, the two 40 foot containers were filled with clothes, medical equipment, food, etc from 11am to the evening. Asylum seekers, refugees and members of Together We Grow helped out. Throughout the […]
2000 food parcels will be packed tonight, Thursday, from 4 to 9pm and on Friday from 4 to 10pm. Each food parcel will contain 25 meals. A lot of volunteers will be needed. The packing will take place outdoor, so dress warmly if you are coming. It is at the old Magistrates Court in Rochdale, […]
Honoured to be invited to a wedding and engagement party by some of the asylum seekers. It was great to see a hall full of refugees, asylum seekers, family and friends of the two couples we were there to celebrate. The music played reflected this diversity, with Arabic, Palestinian, English, etc music. All the food […]
The first of two 40 foot containers was sent off to Aleppo in Syria on 22nd December. It contained warm winter clothes, food, medicine, medical equipment, nappies, etc – all donated by hundreds of people and businesses from the region. The second container will be going to Aleppo in early January. The Asian community in […]
On Thursday we took the last car load of clothes for Aleppo and helped fill the 40 feet long container with clothes, food, medicine, medical equipment, nappies, etc. All the clothes had been checked and sorted into boxes for men, women and children. Around a hundred volunteers helped on Thursday – a lot of them […]
We had six car trips, two trailers and a van going to the old Magistrates Court in Rochdale yesterday full of stuff for Aleppo. This is on top of the two cars and a van that went Saturday and Sunday. The donations came from Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Oxenholme and of course Blackshaw Head. Many […]
Took a second car load for the containers to Aleppo as well as sending a van full of stuff there. When we got home the porch and our drive was full of more donations which we will take for the containers tomorrow. It is currently freezing at night time around Aleppo – and people cannot […]
The response to help the people of Aleppo with essentials have been impressive. Went to the old Magistrates Court in Rochdale on Saturday with the first car load of stuff (last three pictures). A second car load will go today to KYP and a third full car will go on Monday. Thank you so much […]