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| Refugee charities: how we will spend the Guardian appeal donations | Refugee charities: how we will spend the Guardian appeal donations |
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| The Guardian and Observer 2015 charity appeal has raised more than £2.5m in support of six charities helping refugees. We asked each of them to tell readers how the money raised will make a difference. | The Guardian and Observer 2015 charity appeal has raised more than £2.5m in support of six charities helping refugees. We asked each of them to tell readers how the money raised will make a difference. |
| Doctors of the World UK | Doctors of the World UK |
| Thank you everyone who donated to the Guardian and Observer’s We Stand Together charity appeal. It will have a huge impact on how Doctors of the World can help refugees this winter and throughout 2016. | Thank you everyone who donated to the Guardian and Observer’s We Stand Together charity appeal. It will have a huge impact on how Doctors of the World can help refugees this winter and throughout 2016. |
| We will be able to send more volunteer doctors and nurses to the places they are needed most, whether that’s on the ferries from Lesbos to Athens, at the Greece-Macedonian border, or on the ground in Calais and Dunkirk. | |
| Mental health will be a big focus for us in 2016 and readers’ donations will allow us to train volunteers across Europe to provide better emotional first aid to the large number of traumatised refugees they meet. | Mental health will be a big focus for us in 2016 and readers’ donations will allow us to train volunteers across Europe to provide better emotional first aid to the large number of traumatised refugees they meet. |
| Appeal funds will also enable us to help refugees and migrants struggling to get healthcare after they arrive in the UK. Our fortnightly family clinic that helps vulnerable pregnant women was facing a funding shortfall but will now be able to continue throughout 2016. We will also be able to double the number of mobile medics (from four to eight team shifts a month) reaching out to destitute refugees and migrants across London. | Appeal funds will also enable us to help refugees and migrants struggling to get healthcare after they arrive in the UK. Our fortnightly family clinic that helps vulnerable pregnant women was facing a funding shortfall but will now be able to continue throughout 2016. We will also be able to double the number of mobile medics (from four to eight team shifts a month) reaching out to destitute refugees and migrants across London. |
| The appeal has been an emphatic show of solidarity with refugees and a clear call to action. While governments often fail to recognise the plight and potential of refugees, ordinary people are standing up for decent, diverse societies that enable everyone to achieve their full potential. | The appeal has been an emphatic show of solidarity with refugees and a clear call to action. While governments often fail to recognise the plight and potential of refugees, ordinary people are standing up for decent, diverse societies that enable everyone to achieve their full potential. |
| City of Sanctuary | City of Sanctuary |
| Last summer, as the unprecedented refugee crisis deepened, we witnessed a phenomenal outpouring of compassion towards refugees right across Europe – a “revolution of generosity”. | Last summer, as the unprecedented refugee crisis deepened, we witnessed a phenomenal outpouring of compassion towards refugees right across Europe – a “revolution of generosity”. |
| At City of Sanctuary we have received a constant stream of offers to help refugees, and our network has almost doubled. The amazing response to the Guardian appeal sends a powerful message that this generosity persists. There are millions of big-hearted people who want to welcome and care for victims of war, persecution and untold horrors, and make room for them in our privileged society and peaceful lives. | At City of Sanctuary we have received a constant stream of offers to help refugees, and our network has almost doubled. The amazing response to the Guardian appeal sends a powerful message that this generosity persists. There are millions of big-hearted people who want to welcome and care for victims of war, persecution and untold horrors, and make room for them in our privileged society and peaceful lives. |
| On behalf of our entire network, we thank the Guardian and Observer and their readers for this great kindness. We promise to honour your wishes and intentions for the money so generously given. We will strengthen our organisational capacity to match the growth we’ve experienced, helping our local groups to fulfil our vision of welcoming refugees throughout the UK and Ireland and challenging mistrust through awareness-raising in schools and elsewhere. | On behalf of our entire network, we thank the Guardian and Observer and their readers for this great kindness. We promise to honour your wishes and intentions for the money so generously given. We will strengthen our organisational capacity to match the growth we’ve experienced, helping our local groups to fulfil our vision of welcoming refugees throughout the UK and Ireland and challenging mistrust through awareness-raising in schools and elsewhere. |
| We will involve more refugees in the movement, supporting them to fulfil their potential and creating opportunities for their voice to be heard, including in the media and the corridors of power. | We will involve more refugees in the movement, supporting them to fulfil their potential and creating opportunities for their voice to be heard, including in the media and the corridors of power. |
| And we will work with other refugee charities to channel the increased public support into a growing movement for welcome until support for refugees becomes the accepted norm throughout our society. | And we will work with other refugee charities to channel the increased public support into a growing movement for welcome until support for refugees becomes the accepted norm throughout our society. |
| Migrant Overseas Aid Station (Moas) | Migrant Overseas Aid Station (Moas) |
| Saving refugees at sea is a daunting yet rewarding task. We meet families on a daily basis who are fleeing the cruelties of war, torture, poverty and persecution. And as they near the end of their journeys, everything they endured could be in vain if they drown before reaching the relative safety of the shore. | Saving refugees at sea is a daunting yet rewarding task. We meet families on a daily basis who are fleeing the cruelties of war, torture, poverty and persecution. And as they near the end of their journeys, everything they endured could be in vain if they drown before reaching the relative safety of the shore. |
| Rescuing people and seeing the relief on their faces fills us all with enormous satisfaction and pride. It makes us even prouder, however, to be able to tell these refugees that our mission is funded by thousands of people around the world who share our compassion. | Rescuing people and seeing the relief on their faces fills us all with enormous satisfaction and pride. It makes us even prouder, however, to be able to tell these refugees that our mission is funded by thousands of people around the world who share our compassion. |
| The Guardian and Observer charity appeal has underlined the incredible generosity and civic-mindedness of your readers. It means so much to the Moas crew who have spent the holiday season tirelessly saving lives in hostile conditions in the Aegean Sea. | |
| More tangibly, it means that Moas will be able to extend its lifesaving mission in the Aegean Sea by at least another 30 days. In fact, what we conceived as a two-month mission has now been extended to a three-month mission thanks to funds we will receive from the We Stand Together appeal. | More tangibly, it means that Moas will be able to extend its lifesaving mission in the Aegean Sea by at least another 30 days. In fact, what we conceived as a two-month mission has now been extended to a three-month mission thanks to funds we will receive from the We Stand Together appeal. |
| Thanks once again to everybody who contributed to saving lives at sea. | Thanks once again to everybody who contributed to saving lives at sea. |
| Refugee Council | Refugee Council |
| The amazing outpouring of support for refugees generated by the Guardian and Observer’s appeal has been both heartening and inspiring. We want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who has donated. | The amazing outpouring of support for refugees generated by the Guardian and Observer’s appeal has been both heartening and inspiring. We want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who has donated. |
| The phenomenal success of the appeal also enables us all to send an important and challenging message to our government: people have been deeply moved by the plight of refugees and they want to see more done to help. | The phenomenal success of the appeal also enables us all to send an important and challenging message to our government: people have been deeply moved by the plight of refugees and they want to see more done to help. |
| For the small number of refugees who seek safety in Britain, having fled horrors that are unimaginable to most of us, life continues to be extremely tough. Newly granted refugees receive no official integration support to help them settle into their new lives. What’s worse, systematic, bureaucratic failures often leave them homeless and destitute. | For the small number of refugees who seek safety in Britain, having fled horrors that are unimaginable to most of us, life continues to be extremely tough. Newly granted refugees receive no official integration support to help them settle into their new lives. What’s worse, systematic, bureaucratic failures often leave them homeless and destitute. |
| These funds quite simply will help the Refugee Council to be there for those refugees. The money raised by this appeal will mean our staff and volunteers are better able to assist new refugees to secure homes, to find work, to navigate the complexities and unfamiliarity of British society and, ultimately, to take the first steps on the road to rebuilding their lives in safety. | These funds quite simply will help the Refugee Council to be there for those refugees. The money raised by this appeal will mean our staff and volunteers are better able to assist new refugees to secure homes, to find work, to navigate the complexities and unfamiliarity of British society and, ultimately, to take the first steps on the road to rebuilding their lives in safety. |
| British Red Cross | British Red Cross |
| The response to this appeal has been overwhelming. It is clear that the stories of human suffering and desperate journeys really struck a chord with readers. We are incredibly thankful to everyone who has made a donation and helped us reach the staggering £2.5m raised. | The response to this appeal has been overwhelming. It is clear that the stories of human suffering and desperate journeys really struck a chord with readers. We are incredibly thankful to everyone who has made a donation and helped us reach the staggering £2.5m raised. |
| The monies raised by Guardian and Observer readers will go towards the Red Cross’s work helping refugees and vulnerable migrants on the frontline, in their countries of origin and along the migratory route through Europe, and supporting them to find sanctuary here in the UK. | The monies raised by Guardian and Observer readers will go towards the Red Cross’s work helping refugees and vulnerable migrants on the frontline, in their countries of origin and along the migratory route through Europe, and supporting them to find sanctuary here in the UK. |
| Specifically, the funds will go towards our operations in Greece, which, as the point of entry for many thousands, is struggling under the strain. Our staff and volunteers have been meeting refugees and vulnerable migrants off the rescue boats and picking them up on the shores as they arrive in flimsy dinghies. | |
| These funds will help us continue to provide first aid, psychosocial support and basic supplies including food, water and winter items. | These funds will help us continue to provide first aid, psychosocial support and basic supplies including food, water and winter items. |
| In the UK the money will support our family reunion service. This vital service helps us reunite refugees with their families and bring them to safety. By offering casework support and contributing to travel costs, the Red Cross is helping people make the first step to a happy and safe life free from fear. | In the UK the money will support our family reunion service. This vital service helps us reunite refugees with their families and bring them to safety. By offering casework support and contributing to travel costs, the Red Cross is helping people make the first step to a happy and safe life free from fear. |
| Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) | Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) |
| Over £2.5m raised. Wow. Such a phenomenal sign of shared humanity and compassion has lifted the spirits of all our staff, volunteers and people seeking asylum at the ASRC. Thank you. | Over £2.5m raised. Wow. Such a phenomenal sign of shared humanity and compassion has lifted the spirits of all our staff, volunteers and people seeking asylum at the ASRC. Thank you. |
| The money raised will help us address the most critical needs currently facing people seeking asylum in Australia. In the past six months alone we have seen a 500% increase in demand for our services. | The money raised will help us address the most critical needs currently facing people seeking asylum in Australia. In the past six months alone we have seen a 500% increase in demand for our services. |
| We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis facing people seeking asylum in Australia. There are currently more than 30,000 people seeking asylum languishing in detention centres or living in the community facing a life of limbo and uncertainty. | We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis facing people seeking asylum in Australia. There are currently more than 30,000 people seeking asylum languishing in detention centres or living in the community facing a life of limbo and uncertainty. |
| The money raised will help us address this critical need in four current priority areas: | The money raised will help us address this critical need in four current priority areas: |
| All of this is possible thanks to the generous community of Guardian and Observer readers. Thank you. | All of this is possible thanks to the generous community of Guardian and Observer readers. Thank you. |
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