F2 Community Day: February 2023

Using these web resources and the investigative journal you have been given, make notes on the organisation you have been assigned:

• who does this organisation help?
• what do they do?
• what 'needs' are they trying to fulfil?

Refugee Strong - www.refugeestrong.org - founded by Omar Mohamed, co-author of When stars are scattered which tells his story 

O's Refugee Aid Team - www.osrefugeeaidteam.org - founded by Onjali K Rauf, author of The boy at the back of the class

Red Cross – www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/fundraising-and-events 

Ben & Jerry's - https://www.benjerry.co.uk/values/issues-we-care-about/togetherforrefugees

UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency - https://www.unhcr.org/uk/

Coop Foundation - https://www.coopfoundation.org.uk/news/refugee-action-grant/  

Care4Calais - https://care4calais.org/

Leicester, City of Sanctuary - https://leicester.cityofsanctuary.org/

These are the books we have read to you from during National Storytelling Week.  If you would like to read more, feel free to borrow them from the library:

• Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
• We are displaced: my journey and stories from refugee girls around the world by Malala Yousafzai
• On the move: poems about migration by Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake

You might also like to look at:

• Forced to flee : refugee children drawing on their experiences published by the UNHCR - this is where the pictures used in tutorial were taken from
• Far from home : refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty by Cath Senker