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    Weʼve raised £436 to help unaccompanied child refugees and vulnerable adults in Europe find safe and legal routes to the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

    Funded on Tuesday, 20th June 2017

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    The world is currently facing the biggest humanitarian Crisis since the World War II. War, persecution and poverty have forced over 65 million people from their homes.

    The media often fails to depict that over half of refugees are children. Many try to make the arduous journey to Europe all alone.

    At the same time, Europe is fortifying itself. Erecting physical and legal barriers to keep people out. Electric fences are going up, ‘border hunters’ being recruited and Governments’ are dismissing their promises.

    On a daily basis, desperate people fleeing conflict are forced to put themselves in danger as they have no safe and legal ways out.

    Children are young as 8 are stuffed into suffocating lorries, families climb into sinking boats and desperate adults try to scale barbed wire fences.

    They are all in pursuit of something they often already have a legal right to: whether it’s to reach their family members or to be resettled away from conflict because of their extreme need.

    Safe Passage is a UK based charity that exists to help unaccompanied child refugees and vulnerable adults in Europe find safe, legal routes to the UK and elsewhere in Europe. They work with unaccompanied children living in squalid refugee camps in France, Greece and Italy to guide them through the minefield of asylum law and find a safe home to grow up in.

    Every person fleeing persecution had a right to safe, legal routes to sanctuary. That’s why on Sunday I’m running the Edinburgh Marathon for Safe Passage UK.

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      29

      • Nadia Stephenson

        Nadia Stephenson

        May 29, 2017

        Well done Rachel!!

        £10.00

      • Sophie

        Sophie

        May 28, 2017

        Super impressed with your efforts. Xxx

        £20.00

      • Sue and Derek Wragg

        Sue and Derek Wragg

        May 27, 2017

        Good Luck 😊

        £5.00

      • Nicola Wragg

        Nicola Wragg

        May 27, 2017

        Good Luck! See you at the finish line 👍🏻 X

        £20.00

      • Anonymous

        Anonymous

        May 27, 2017

        £5.00

      • Alex Smith

        Alex Smith

        May 26, 2017

        Best of luck! Absolutely sure you'll smash it!

        £10.00

      • Owen Llewelyn

        Owen Llewelyn

        May 26, 2017

        The only one on our pod with a chance of ever completing a marathon. Hope you smash it. Pob lwc!

        £10.00

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