A Christmas Appeal by the refugee and migrant homelessness charity Positive Action in Housing (SC027577) | | | An appeal for hygiene packs, PPE, working smartphones or laptops and financial donations to provide direct humanitarian relief and protection for homeless people seeking refuge in Glasgow during Lockdown in the Christmas and Winter period.. | | Dear friend,
An opportunity for you to support this Christmas Appeal and/or ask your organisation to give a donation in the spirit of giving.
From tomorrow, Positive Action in Housing is holding a two week winter surgery for up 300 refugee and asylum seeking families and individuals. This includes the elderly, sick or those with additional vulnerabilities. We will distribute emergency support, bus passes, food items, essential winter survival gear, sleeping bags, hygiene packs, selection boxes, books and craft packs for children aged 3 to 15 years old. This support is designed to give hope and a little relief from the hardship and poverty that almost all refugees are forced to endure.
Hundreds of people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds continue to be accommodated in hotels for months on end with no money at all, unable to buy sanitary protection, toiletries or even snacks. Some people were placed in dirty accommodation without food, money or Wi-fi access. While others were forced to share with people with their own mental health trauma. Yet others need help to resurrect their asylum cases in order to secure the right to remain and begin to rebuild their lives.
Throughout Winter, Positive Action in Housing's staff and volunteers will be working to ensure that people get specialist proactive advice, advocacy, signposting and practical support from our frontline homelessness caseworkers to enable people to resolve their legal, housing or financial crisis. We will also be working to provide safe shelter, with the essential needs of food, warmth, sanitation and cleanliness met through our community hosting programme Room for Refugees and our Emergency Relief Fund.
Read on to see how you can support | | | Donate any of the following: Rice, Pasta, Noodles, fresh Bread, soup tins (vegetarian), apples, tangerines, oranges, tea, coffee, sugar, female hygiene products, tooth paste/toothbrush, razors/shaving foam, Anti bacterial Hand Wash, Soap, deodorants etc., Selection boxes for children, Books for children (Roald Dahl, David Walliams), Children's craft packs. Email home@positiveactionh.org | | | Give a financial donation
Donate using JustGiving, PayPal or CAF.
Give a regular amount each month
via Charities Aid Foundation or post a cheque made payable to Positive Action in Housing to: Positive Action in Housing ,98 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1PJ
Donate via internet banking Name of Account: Positive Action in Housing | | |
Background to this appeal
In 2019/20, Positive Action in Housing assisted 1,440 destitute refugees & asylum seekers from Syria, Eritrea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine and Yemen with advice, legal representation, shelter, and crisis funds at crucial stages in their settlement. We provided 43K nights of shelter (www.roomforrefugees.com) and distributed almost £60K from our Emergency Relief Fund – providing a genuine lifeline. We work to resolve a crisis and rebuild lives.
As well as humanitarian aid, we provide a breathing space so that people can decide their options with their lawyer or caseworker. This approach has produced life-transforming outcomes for people who felt they had no hope of change.
| | This Winter Appeal will help vulnerable refugees and asylum seeking families, children, pregnant women, the elderly and sick survive the harsh winter period on their journey to building positive futures as equal citizens in our community.
We will focus resources on those at risk of exploitation: unaccompanied children, families, pregnant woman, the elderly and sick, and lone individuals living in poverty and people with health problems/disabilities.
As well as arranging shelter, our Winter Surgery provides bus tokens, food vouchers and hygiene packs, with books and art materials for children. We will also provide crisis grants to ensure people in these vulnerable and at-risk groups do not go hungry, cold, or forced to live on the street. | | | Donate Today
Your donation will support those who have fled war and persecution in their own countries, risking their lives on dangerous journeys, to find sanctuary here, leaving loved ones, friends and all that they know.
Whatever you give, no matter how modest, is greatly appreciated. Regular monthly donations are especially welcome as we can plan the support we give.
Finally, please forward this email to your friends, family or coworkers, and encourage them to give generously. | | | Positive Action in Housing
Working together to rebuild lives
Scottish Registered Charity SC027577
www.positiveactionh.org
www.roomforrefugees.com | | | | |
