Room to Heal
Room to Heal Christmas Appeal 2021
This Christmas, please will you give the gift of hope to refugees and asylum seekers who have survived torture and trafficking?
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Room to Heal supports refugees and asylum seekers who have survived the horrors of torture, trafficking and organised violence.
This Christmas, please would you help raise much-needed funds for therapeutic support for community members, so they can get the specialist support they need next year?
The pandemic has hit our community members hard, putting significant pressure on people already dealing with poor mental health.
Your donation could help fund short-term therapy for new members, preparing them to join one of our therapeutic groups and supporting them to address enduring post-traumatic symptoms.
Your donation could also help fund one of our weekly group therapy sessions, providing a safe space for members to share their experiences, gain strength from one another and learn to slowly trust others again. These sessions help members feel less isolated, and they often refer to others in their group as their brothers and sisters in the UK.
After one year at the group I felt a lot of change, I start to speak and express how I feel, I become less negative. It gave me confidence and feeling of being part of community, not rejected.
Most community members have no access to green space. Your donation could help fund our weekly gardening and community gatherings, giving people precious time in a peaceful, safe space.
You can feel the serenity.
At these gatherings, members join together to share a freshly cooked meal. For those who eat alone most of the week, this is a special time for people to come together:
When you work in the garden together, you laugh together, you cook together and eat together, it is like family.
This shared experience of survival has a profound impact on members: seeing other people surviving and getting past seemingly insurmountable shame, loss and barriers engenders hope in members that they too can experience the same one day.
This Christmas, please donate towards members therapeutic services for 2022, giving them the gift of hope:
£10 could pay for a member's travel fare to attend our weekly community and gardening gatherings
£20 could fund internet data for a member for a month to access group therapy online
£50 could pay for a nourishing community meal, bringing together a group of members and helping to reduce their isolation
£100 could fund online therapy sessions, helping a group of members feel supported and listened to, restoring their hope for a more positive future.
Although I'm living by myself, I find myself being part of a supportive and understanding community.
Over the last 3 years, 100% of members (respondents to our annual anonymous members' survey) told us their mental health has improved as a direct result of being supported by Room to Heal.
Sharing your thoughts with others, feeling appreciated and loved by others. That's how I feel being part of Room to Heal.
Please donate today to our therapeutic services and give members the gift of hope.