What can I do to help refugees fleeing across Europe?
I want to offer a room to a refugee. Who can I contact? Continue reading “QARN: Frequently Asked Questions: refugees fleeing across Europe”
You can ask your Clerk to write to your MPs and MEPs enclosing a note of the Meeting for Sufferings’ statement.
Friends are encouraged to write, in their own words, to their MP, to express their feelings about this matter.
The MfS statement is copied below.
Quakers urgently call for safe paths for refugees
The representative body of Quakers in Britain, Meeting for Sufferings, has made the following statement in reaction to the unfolding refugee crisis.“Quakers in Britain urge the UK Government to welcome those desperately seeking a place of safety, in Europe, from the dangers in their own countries. In this urgent situation it cannot be right to harden hearts against people who are struggling and dying on European soil and in the seas around us.“In Britain we have a tradition of sheltering those in danger, as we did with the Kindertransport, rescuing thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe so many years ago, and more recently, when we welcomed refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Bosnia and Kosova. It is time to open our hearts and communities again. Continue reading “Quakers urgently call for safe paths for refugees”
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