The Manchester Syrian community protested in Piccadilly Gardens on 19 August. The theme of the protest was 'The Assad Regime, not ISIS, is the Greatest Threat to Syrians'. We affirmed that while ISIS has killed thousands of innocent Syrian civilians and is a terrorist organisation which we condemn, the biggest threat to the civilian population in Syria is the Assad regime.
Manchester's Syrian community will be protesting at Piccadilly Gardens on Wednesday at 18:30 against the Assad regime's most recent massacre against Douma. Continuous shelling in Douma on 16 August left over one hundred killed in one day.
As the Syrian community within the UK, we are demanding our Government to provide asylum for Khaldoon Sinjab and his family. Khaldoon is a quadriplegic Syrian refugee able to move only his tongue and dependent upon electricity to live. .
RR met with MEP's Afzal Khan and Gianni Pitella in our office on 13 August. After giving a brief presentation to them on the Syrian conflict, Afzal and Gianni asked us some of their questions on the conflict and were shocked to hear some of the facts and statistics.
MP Jeff Smith visited our office on 12 August 2015 to meet with the Syrian community and to hear about any issues that we are facing. After we went through a presentation for him, Jeff asked us a number of questions about Syria and promised to help us get our message across to other Labour Parliamentarians.
RR organised a trip to Lake District Windermere on 08 August for the Syrian community of Manchester.
We left Manchester with 2 buses with about 100 people and enjoyed a day of tourism and sightseeing!
The weather was amazing and the day was full fun for all members of the family!
This trip was covered by Orient News in Arabic.
RR was interviewed by BBC Radio Manchester on 3 August regarding the situation in Calais. We emphasised that the asylum seekers in Calais must be treated as victims and not criminals, and reminded listeners of the brutality that Syrians are facing within their home countries which necessitates them to flee to Europe.
RR attended MPAC-UK's Anti-Islamophobia Network Strategy Away Day in Newport Pagnell on 1st of August. This event brought together organisations from across the UK to discuss rising levels of Islamophobia and how we can collectively work to address this increasing problem.
In cooperation with the Kurdish House, Rethink Rebuild Society hosted a workshop on Sunday 26 July on the topic of human rights, delivered by Mr. Hassan Ayo. The workshop was highly interactive and covered the history and basic principles of human rights, as well as looking at some of the major human rights treaties.
Our Eid ul-Fitr celebration on 18 July was a huge success, with a hall for 300 people completely packed with British Syrians coming together to celebrate this holidy. It was very heart-warming to see such a large and vibrant Syrian community, with both children and adults alike socialising and participating in activities.