The Welcome Project

Terry Winterton, who is Friend in Residence at the Glenthorne Centre in the Lake District, writes about a weekend project with refugees

The St Augustine’s group. | Photo: Courtesy of Terry Winterton.

Oxford University Press recently announced ‘Refugee’ as the ‘Children’s Word of the Year’ for 2016. They chose it because so many children had been using the word in their essays for a BBC Radio 2 competition. All of us have become familiar with news of refugees fleeing from war in Syria and pictures of many others crossing the Mediterranean to Europe in the hope of a new life.

Quakers have responded with help locally in various ways over the last year. One Quaker initiative in the Lake District, which has been running since 2008, has given relief to hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers from over forty countries.

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