We spoke at a conference on 20 May hosted by the Community Safety Forum titled 'Communities Together to Tackle Daesh'. This conference was aimed at highlighting the expertise within the community to identify and address the threats emanating from Daesh.
We attended a conference on Community Action and Social Power on 19 May 2016, where we met a delegation of social workers, youth workers and community workers from Sweden. We were able to share best practice to address the challenges faced by refugees and also to learn best practices from Sweden that we can implement here.
British Syrian organisations released a statement on 19 May regarding the recent statement by the ISSG calling on the World Food Programme (WFP) ‘to immediately carry out a program for air bridges and air drops for all areas in need’ if by 1 June there has been no progress on the humanitarian situation in Syri
Rethink Rebuild Society helped with the writing and dissemination of the following open letter by British Syrian activist Farah Alfarhan. Farah lived for 27 years in Aleppo and was detained by the Assad regime and endured torture for 35 days while in detention. Her open letter urged Prime Minister David Cameron to take action on Syria.
As part of a group of Syrian community and advocacy organisations in the UK, we submitted a letter to the UK Ambassador to the UK on 15 May expressing gratitude for Canada's stance on accepting Syrian refugees, and also expressing solidarity with the Canadian people in light of the wildfire disaster in the province of Alberta.
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