We met with Katy Wood from the Asylum, Refugee and Migration Service of Manchester City Council on 4 April. We talked about some of the local approaches to the integration of Syrian refugees and what sort of coordination we can achieve to link both of our efforts.
We met with Sekandar Merza, Chairman of the UK Islamic Mission, on 29 April. This was a meeting of introduction and to seek means of cooperation to help with the resettlement of Syrian refugees to be active in their society. We are very grateful to Sekandar for his time and look forward to working further with UKIM.
In response to the report by the Foreign Affairs Committee suggesting that the UK should cooperate with Assad to combat Daesh, we released both a press release and a Briefing exposing how delusional and childish this report is.
We met with Julie Ward MEP on 25 March to discuss issues pertaining to Syria. Given Julie's passion for refugees, we spent a considerable amount of time discussing the UK's vulnerable persons relocation scheme and identifying ways to push and challenge the implementation of the scheme.
Four of RR's members presented the 'Voices from Syria' talk at Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel in Warrington on Wednesday 23 March 2016.
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