Hi

This is a bit unoriginal now - but here goes:  once more I am giving up wine during Lent.    From the beginning of Ash Wednesday, 5th March to midnight on 19th April, Easter Saturday  (46 days, not the 40 it talks about in the Bible) I shall be alcohol-free - perhaps even thinner and fitter, but don't bank on it. I am passing on to Solace all the money this will save - plus a bit more - and if you would like to make an encouraging donation, that would be marvellous.

Solace  offers counseling and psychotherapy to asylum seekers and refugees in Yorkshire and Humberside. Asylum seekers, in particular, are among the most reviled people in our society but also the most needy. Many of Solace's clients have been imprisoned, tortured, raped and seen family and friends murdered.  But, extraordinarily, many report that the experience of applying for asylum in Britain is worse:  uncertainty, poverty, intermittent imprisonment while waiting – perhaps for years - for a verdict from a system which is notoriously flawed.  Half of asylum seekers have mental health problems and some are suicidal. 

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