About Re-Act, Refugee Action - Scotland
Re-Act, Refugee Action (Scotland), is a not-for-profit humanitarian aid project launched in response to the worldwide refugee crisis.
Re-Act, Refugee Action - Scotland Description
Re-Act, Refugee Action Scotland, is a not-for-profit humanitarian aid project launched in response to the worldwide refugee crisis. We are part of a growing organisation throughout the UK, working to fundraise and collect vital donations from all over Scotland to transport to the refugee camps in Calais and throughout other crisis areas of Europe.
We aim to help raise awareness of the growing crisis that many in our government and much of the mainstream media refuse to support.
In Calais alone there are thousands of displaced people who have fled their home countries in Africa and throughout the Middle East and risked their lives in a desperate attempt to find safety. Most of these people have fled from war and have suffered through and witnessed atrocities that most cannot begin to comprehend.
In spite of what many wish us to believe, these people have left their homes, jobs and countries behind in order to survive, not to beg, borrow or steal from more affluent economies, and many do not survive to treacherous journey over land and sea, men, women and children alike. They risk everything to attempt these journeys because for most the only alternative is death.
We believe that everybody has a right to live; their needs do not matter less merely because they were not born into a more peaceful and privileged society. We are all people, we are equal, we all have a right to a basic quality of life and we all deserve a chance to live in peace.
People, not swarms; refugees, not migrants.
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Upcoming donation day!
We'll be doing it all again on Dec 15th, taking in your donations and distributing them to people in need in Scotland and in refugee camps in Europe & further afield.
The extended donation wish-list is on the posters attached. Warm winter donations are especially appreciated, it's already cold in the camps & due to get much, much colder.
... Please share far & wide, and let's make this a big one.
Thank you :)
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Upcoming donation days!
We'll be doing it all again on Nov 17th, taking in your donations and distributing them to people in need in Scotland and in refugee camps in Europe & further afield.
The extended donation wish-list is on the posters attached. Warm winter donations are especially appreciated, it's already cold in the camps & due to get much, much colder.
... We have 2 weeks from now until Nov 17th to spread the word as best as we can. Please share far & wide, and let's make this a big one.
Thank you :)
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Today a load of clothes, shoes, adult nappies and wheelchairs are on their way to Erbil in Northern Iraq All of this was done with your donations and the the families who have arrived in Scotland contributed their donations as well Thank you to Val and the team for the wheelchairs. To Lawrence for organising it and Twana from Aland Post in London for transporting it to Erbil
Donation day Thank you to the volunteers and for the lovely donations we got on Saturday From loads of beautiful hand knitted items from South Queensferry A brilliant donation of money from a Easter lunch that the family paid to come to All of your donations will continue to go to families in Edinburgh and further afield.... Once again for their generosity to Carole and her team in the church in letting us hold our days there
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Thank you to all who donated items for Samos including craft and stationary supplies for the Alpha Centre. They got collected yesterday by Sue and Phil Flagg from the charity Next Stop Symi. They will be taking them out in May.
An update from the Island we support as much as possible. So sad that there is no improvement from authorities.
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Donation days in both Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy this coming Saturday, Feb 24th! Donations and volunteers welcome :)
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This Saturday, be amazing if you have anything to donate:) We will be sending items out very soon after to Greece and Calais.
A programme has just gone out on Radio 4 -Untold Story - which has the story of two local Edinburgh men. One a native of Scotland the other a man who has come from Syria
News from our most recent trip:)