Tag: Refugee
LITTLE AMAL: Epic 8000km journey of 9-year-old refugee girl puppet culminates...
“Her journey represents those taken by the millions of people who have been violently displaced by war or persecution, especially children.”
Triple threat – DEC launches appeal to globally help most fragile...
Charities along with fellow members of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) have launched a Coronavirus Appeal to raise funds to help the...
Young professionals take time off work to raise funds for charity
Raising an astounding figure of £37,887.90 this year, six volunteers from Hope 4 Humanity travelled out on 14th September...
From refugee kid to model: How one man’s harsh childhood in...
A young man who grew up in a refugee camp in Burma has set his sights on a career in the modelling industry and...
Student organises refugee aid drive
A Bradford College student has been so moved by the plight of refugees in northern France she is filling a van of goods and...
Bids open for £1 million fund for refugee-supporting organisations
A £1 million fund for organisations and communities wanting to support refugees coming to the UK opened for bids on Wednesday 1st November.
The fund...
Smuggled in a suitcase: Syrian refugee family reveal how they paid...
A Syrian family now settled in the UK paid £45 to smuggle their baby to Lebanon in a suitcase as they fled their war...
From fleeing home to flying high: Refugee stands up to adversity...
At the age of just 11, Said Jamal was forced to flee his home country of Afghanistan after his father was killed by Taliban...
Ruth’s refugee recital: BBC voiceover call for local student
A Bradford student, who arrived in the UK as a refugee from Africa during her teenage years, has been selected to voice a BBC...
‘SCHOOL OF SANCTUARY’: Syrian refugees welcomed by city’s students
Dozens of members of Bradford’s Syrian community turned out for a special event last week, organised to welcome them into the city.
Students at Dixons...
Haunting portrait of drowned refugee raises a four figure sum for...
Political painting provokes philanthropy
An award winning painter from Bradford, who sold a stunning oil painting at a fundraising auction last month, has managed...
Bradford charity group revisit refugee camps in Dunkirk and Calais
Keeping ‘in touch’ with the world’s neediest
Osman Gondal, founder and CEO of Bradford’s InTouch Foundation, has visited the migrant camps in Dunkirk and Calais,...
Supporting Syria: UK to invest an extra £1.2Bn over the next...
Current funding of £1.12 billion to be more than doubled
Money to be invested in the region over the next four years
Cash to help fund...
Syrian-born dentist organises Leeds Town Hall vigil for starving
Drop food not bombs!
A Syrian refugee living in Leeds, Fawaz Alghofari, is holding a vigil in front of Leeds Town Hall this weekend for...
Taking food, water and shelter to the world’s most vulnerable
Life-changing trip complete by Harehills Dozen
A team of selfless volunteers from Leeds returned from their expedition to the French refugee camps last week, with...
Plea from Syrian refugee mothers as numbers of female UK travellers...
Latest figures from UK national counter terrorism policing show that women and girls are continuing to travel to Syria. The UK police service and...
From Leeds to Calais: Harehills dozen take crucial supplies to French...
The donations have been made and the vans loaded. All that is left now is for the ‘Harehills Refugee Aid team’ to embark on...
David Cameron delivers Christmas promise to Syrian refugees
Government hits target, resettling around 20,000 people
The Prime Minister has today announced that the UK has delivered on its promise of resettling 1,000 vulnerable...
A REAL-ly special moment
From fleeing refugee camp to walking side-by-side with Ronaldo
As the biggest club in world football, Real Madrid rarely find themselves away from the public...
From Bradford to Dunkirk
Yorkshire convoy return from the Jungle
A convoy of ten fully-loaded vans set off from Bradford to France last weekend as 35 volunteers made the...
