Friends support Somali community in Muswell Hill

Muswell Hill Quakers are among local faith groups offering support to the recently burned down Somali Bravanese Welfare Centre

Friends in Muswell Hill Meeting in London are among local faith groups offering support in the wake of the recent burning down of the Somali Bravanese Welfare Centre.  Muswell Hill Meeting is a member of the local Churches Forum that coordinated an immediate response to the fire. The Meeting also sent a separate letter and some members and attenders were present at a vigil at the Centre.

Muswell Hill Friend Louise Rendle told the Friend: ‘The chairman of the Bravanese Centre said they had spent thirteen years fundraising to have the centre and have now lost almost everything in the fire, including their archives, records and computers.

‘He explained that the Centre is a focus for the Bravanese community, with many after-school and holiday activities for children, and was also used as a mosque. He said that many of the children are very distressed, no longer feel safe and say they feel they have lost their “second home”.’

She added: ‘Many of us at the meetings felt and affirmed that, terrible though the fire was, the aftermath has brought us closer with a determination to work together and support each other.’

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