We will be welcoming gifts from you, your neighbours, your friends to pass on to refugees & asylum seekers in Plymouth & Torbay.
Gifts will go to people seeking sanctuary who after traumatic journeys from danger, violence, persecution, and intolerable situations, exist here for months or years in very sparse conditions – waiting for their applications for refugee status to be processed – on £39 a week, or £9 a week if temporarily in hotel, with no right to work, isolated, far from families and home culture, very removed from daily life in the UK.
The Gifts will be distributed to asylum seekers in the Torbay area and via Devon & Cornwall Refugee Support and Mt Gould Hospital team who work directly with asylum seekers in the Plymouth area.
Suggested gift items are, for example:
Toiletries – shower gel, body lotion, after shave, hand creams etc.
Warm items… gloves, scarf, hat, warm socks, jumper etc (all new please – these are special seasonal gifts, rather than passed-on donations)
Sweet Food or confectionery – some kind of special ‘treat’ (meat-free & alcohol-free)
Or a general use Voucher / gift card (e.g. from Post Office / supermarket) that can be used anywhere.
We hope to see you there!
Please tell friends as well!
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