Glasgow Winter Crisis Appeal 2020

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Donate via JustGiving, PayPal  or Charities Aid Foundation. Winter Appeal 2020 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 Volunteer Volunteer with the Humans of Glasgow network Sign up here - for more info email Tim@positiveactionh.org  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  Sort code: 82 20 00 Account: 00447398 Companies can request an invoice for tax/auditing purposes, just email accounts@positiveactionh.org.  More about the winter appeal   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

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Help us keep a clean mailing list, please  update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Positive Action in Housing News Latest news from Positive Action in Housing.  See web version here   Throughout the pandemic, Positive Action in Housing has had its boots on the ground supporting people in emergency need, here's a run down of what we are doing as we approach the end of the year. Thank you for all your support and please consider giving a donation to our Winter Appeal – details below …    Call to Action To see our latest Call To Action, go here .   Winter Appeal 2020 – Please Donate This week sees the start of a two-week long Winter Surgery at Positive Action in Housing right up until Xmas. Things have had to be changed because of the pandemic, naturally. We will be distributing direct support to 287 families and single men and women. We have volunteer drivers and a programme of appointments set up to help everyone. The surgery will safely distribute emergency crisis support to asylum seekers and those with NRPF. The surgery will benefit 319 adults and 182 children. 22% of those who are in need are living in hotels without money. 26% of people in need  are between 22 and 30 years old. 19% are between 41 and 50 years old. 5% are aged between 17 and 21 years old. The people who are getting support  are from 42 different countries of origin, including Nigeria (23%), Iran (9%), Sierra Leone (6%), Sudan/Pakistan/Iraq (5% each). Here is some information about how you can donate to and support our winter appeal. Order your 2021 diversity wall-planner now  Costs £10 each. It contains all the main faith dates, UN dates, public holidays and more. click here to order now Humans of Glasgow Network  Our Humans of Glasgow Network has been very busy. The Network grew out of the pandemic, the Park Inn incident and the need for contactless volunteering.  It is currently made up of 250 volunteers and 350 refugees – a work in progress. And it's growing.  In the past month, Morgan and Umran, our emergency relief coordinatorshave been putting together winter care packs and distributing digital technology to enable people to learn and connect. Beds and furniture and food has been delivered. Another lovely task of the network has been giving Xmas trees for refugees , within a few days over 50 families requested a tree, and we have posted some of the photos on Instagram @positiveactionh . It has brought a lot if joy to people and one of our service users wrote about it here: https://www.paih.org/our-christmas-tree    (The sad thing is that almost every tree had no presents underneath them).    We need new refugee hosts in Glasgow and London! We are struggling to get hosts to offer shelter in Glasgow and London, and elsewhere across Scotland and the U.K. especially because of Covid 19. In London, our referral partners to Room for Refugees are seeing really vulnerable people , young people, the elderly and sick being made destitute. Please offer a spare room or property to help a destitute refugee or asylum seeker family, individual or child resolve their crisis, just fill-in this form. More info here.   Refugee and Migrants Rights Training  Here's our timetable for live, online, open course training to March 2021. We are offering all our courses online using Zoom. For in-house training please drop a line to Iain Chisholm at iain@positiveactionh.org and he will be pleased to help you.    Annual Impact Report Here is our latest Annual Impact Report. Our 25th AGM happened on Zoom and was a quiet affair compared to previous years. But we will properly celebrate a quarter century of Positive Action in Housing once this Lockdown is over. Take a quick glance at everything we do on the one page infographic.      Call for a Public Inquiry Thank you for signing the call for a public inquiry into the housing crisis affecting people seeking asylum in Glasgow. We have gathered almost 3,500 signatures. Read the detailed demands here and add your name in support.   Here is a timeline of the deadly accommodation crisis in Glasgow. Refugees and asylum seekers are human beings – not Amazon parcels to be shifted without consequence: Read more articles on our blog   Give a regular donation. Without regular donations, the work we do to help people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to rebuild their lives simply would not be possible. Please consider giving a regular donation via CAF . Or give a one off donation via PayPal or JustGiving. For other ways to give, for example,  organising birthday fundraisers on Facebook, please go here.    Join our movement by becoming a member: https://www.paih.org/membership/   Help us keep an up to date mailing list.  Sign up to regular news from Positive Action in Housing    Positive Action in Housing | Working together to rebuild lives Scottish Registered charity no: SC027577 Company limited by guarantee: 158867 www.positiveactionh.org  www.roomforrefugees.com While you're here ... our charity is delivering front-line homelessness services in an increasingly difficult economic climate. We depend on donations to continue this work. Please help refugee and migrant families to rebuild their lives by giving a regular donation. Set up a Direct Debit here - it takes a minute - Or set up a standing order using internet banking . Our bank details are: Positive Action in Housing Sort Code 82 20 00 and Account Number is 00447398. 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