Our Research and Policy Coordinator Dr. Yasmine Nahlawi met with two Treasury Committee specialists on 19 September to discuss banking issues experienced by Syrian individuals and organisations within the UK.
The third interactive workshop for young Syrian refugees “The grand journey of art and design” was held on Saturday 16th of September. This one of several workshops which have been organised by Rethink Rebuild Society (RR), Foundation for Science, Technology, Civilisation UK (FSTC UK), and AMAL aimed to celebrate the diversity of Muslim cultures.
Our Development Coordinator, Amaf Yousef, participated - as part of the Network for Refugee Voices delegation - in several meetings on the margins of the 72nd Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in September.
Our Advocacy Director, Dr Haytham Alhamwi, delivered a talk at the "Community Sponsorship Training - Sharing experiences and good" event held in London on Friday 15 September 2017.
Between 3rd and 9th of September 2017, our Refugee Support Coordinator, Ahmad Mujahed Nayef, joined activists from Germany, Sweden, Lebanon, UK, Norway, France, and Greece in Athens to get the training for “Train the trainer-Creative and Social Entrepreneur Programme”. The Creative and Social Entrepreneur Programme is a short course certified by University of Manchester.
We co-hosted an exhibition alongside Amnesty International's Manchester branch on 8 September in Cross Street Chapel. This planning for this exhibition was headed mostly by Syrian women from the community who either were former detainees in Assad's prisons or who have relatives currently in detention.
Over 1500 Syrians from across the UK and their non-Syrian friends attended our 7th annual Syrian fun day in Manchester on Saturday the 2nd of September. It was held this year at the Albion Academy in Salford and it was a hugely successful event that bought hundreds of Syrians from across the UK to connect with their local communities and to celebrate Eid Al-Adha.
A statement issued by the 'Save Our Syria' platform on 30 August amplifies the work done by Rethink Rebuild Society regarding the International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearance. This statement includes the stance of Syrian civil society towards the detainee issue and outlines some core demands that Syrians have on behalf of the countless missing detainees.
A video released on 30 August highlights Manchester residents' reactions to harrowing statistics describing detention in Syria. Special thank you to Sophia Grace Marshall and to Elena Cotton from Manchester University for their time in putting together this video and interviewing passers by.
To mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, an article was released on 30 August in The Guardian, with input from Rethink Rebuild Society and Amnesty International, to highlight the plight of disappeared women in Assad regime's prisons.