Lois Lodge (organiser of the event), Shabibi Shah (author of Where Do I Belong) and Emily Hunka (founder of Rewrite) Photo: Sally Elias
Love thy neighbour
Lois Lodge reports on a recent conference and asks: what have refugees done for Britain?
by Lois Lodge
9th December 2011
Well, they founded Marks & Spencer, Burtons, and the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency. They designed the Millenium Dome (Richard Rogers), and they include Albert Einstein and the Freud family (Sigmund, Anna, Clement and Lucein). Dorking and area Quakers, with Churches Together in Dorking, discovered this whilst investigating the plight of seekers of asylum and refuge in Britain today at a conference called ‘Love Thy Neighbour?’ held in October. The conference had been prompted by concerns first raised about the treatment of child and adult detainees in the Gatwick area.
