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Iʼve raised £4,000 to pay refugee chefs a Living Wage to prepare hot meals at west London's first weekly Drop-In Centre for Refugees & Asylum Seekers
- London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, United Kingdom
- Funded on Sunday, 18th March 2018
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West London Welcome, a Drop-in Centre For Refugees and Migrants will open its doors in Hammersmith in January. The weekly Drop-In Centre will be the only one of its kind in west London and is hugely needed to tackle isolation and destitution amongst the local and wider refugee community. We are Crowdfunding to pay some wonderful refugee chefs the Living Wage to cook a hot lunch.
Asylum seekers live on £35 a week, cannot work and often live in crowded and chaotic housing. They've escaped trauma and violence to get to the UK and find themselves isolated and sometimes destitute whilst they wait endlessly to hear whether they will be given refuge and allowed to stay. Our Centre will offer a safe, social space to hang out, provide english and therapeutic classes, but most importantly a comforting, nutritious hot meal prepared by the women's collective of refugee chefs from Welcome Cinema & Kitchen (pictured above).
With your money we can provide our refugee chefs much needed employment and serve a delicious hot lunch to people who need it most. Please consider giving us a gift over the Christmas and holiday season. Thanks so much.
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107
Donna Hanson
Mar 14, 2018
Marvellous initiative - all the best
£10.00
Anna Reid
Mar 14, 2018
I've got round to this finally. Such delicious food!
£50.00
Anne
Mar 13, 2018
£20.00
Anna
Mar 13, 2018
£20.00
David Allen
Mar 12, 2018
£50.00
Iain Muir
Mar 12, 2018
All the best for your refugee service.....
£20.00
Joshua Maynez
Mar 12, 2018
£30.00
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Joanne MacInnes
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, United Kingdom
Core member of H&F Refugees Welcome working with resettled refugees. Was a regular volunteer in Calais for help Refugees and Women For Refugee Women. For 2 yrs Ive enjoyed teaching at the Islington Centre for Refugees & Migrants and now setting up a similar Centre in west London.