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Preston City of SanctuaryFriday, April 2nd, 2021 at 9:52am

Please if anyone could offer support or donation of the needed items, please contact us via inbox or email us: prestoncityofsanctuary@gmail.com.
If you wish to donate money, please use bank details in the flyer below.
Thank you!

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Preston City of SanctuaryThursday, April 1st, 2021 at 12:59pm

Dear Sanctuary Seekers friends and supporters.
Team Emergency Department is fundraising for Syria Relief. Here’s their JustGiving page, if you’d like to donate

Team Emergency Department- Preston to Raqqa

Help Team Emergency Department raise money to support Syria Relief

justgiving.com

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Preston City of SanctuaryThursday, April 1st, 2021 at 12:42pm

CLIE launches new scholarship for students from forced migration backgrounds
The Bowman Scholarship is the first scheme of its kind at UCL to widen access to university at pre-undergraduate level.

Read the full CLIE Press Release:https://www.ucl.ac.uk/languages-international-education/news/2021/mar/clie-launches-new-scholarship-students-forced-migration-backgrounds

For further information about the scholarship, including full eligibility criteria and how to apply, please visit the Bowman Scholarships website.

For further information about the scholarship, including full eligibility criteria and how to apply, please visit the Bowman Scholarships website.

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Preston City of SanctuaryWednesday, March 31st, 2021 at 11:39am

How do you know if the media is giving an accurate picture of asylum in the UK? Are we really being ‘swamped’? Are they all economic migrants? Are they all coming across the channel in dinghies? The truth is far different, and you can find it all here on the Refugee Council’s excellent website! http://ow.ly/M97u50Ea5n8

Jubilee+ Refugee Network

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Preston City of SanctuaryMonday, March 29th, 2021 at 9:28am

An interesting article I've just seen
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/3/81

also in the same online journal is this
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/3/82
Disrupting State Spaces: Asylum Seekers in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres

The Politics of Refugee Protection in a (Post)COVID-19 World

The COVID-19 pandemic is not a “great equaliser” as some have claimed, but rather an amplifier of existing inequalities, including those associated with migration. Perhaps not surprisingly, it is refugees, often the most marginalised of all migrants, who have had the most to lose. Refugees and d...

mdpi.com

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Preston City of SanctuaryMonday, March 29th, 2021 at 8:19am

"The way a person reaches the UK is not related to whether they are in need of protection. Not everybody is able to access a safe and regular scheme."

Our CEO Enver Solomon explains why the new asylum plan is senseless and inhumane.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/24/priti-patel-asylum-system-refugees-uk-britain

Refugee Council

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