Looking for new ideas in integration?
Sheffield City of Sanctuary has been singled out by an international initiative that promotes integration. It will be featured during Refugee Week (June 15-21) on the ‘Cities of ‘Migration' website. This features ‘good ideas' from around the world about how global cities help to integrate immigrants in different areas of life, for others to learn from and adapt to their own situations. Examples include how in East London LloydsTSB targets recruits from local ethnic minorities to help tailor services to local customers; another shows how the police in Cardiff are using ESOL classes to help migrants understand British policing. www.citiesofmigration.ca
For further information please contact: sarah@cityofsanctuary.org
CORRECTION TO REFUGEE WEEK PUBLICITY MATERIAL
The Sheffield All Nations Tournament is happening on Sunday June 21st
2noon - 5pm
Sheffield All Nations Tournament - refugee and asylum seeker football competition
Goodwin Sports Field, Northumberland Road, S10 2TY
Organised by Football Unites, Racism Divides (FURD) in partnership with the Sheffield and Hallamshire County FA.
Contact: Desbon Bushiri: 0114 255 3156; desbon@furd.org
This has previously been advertised as being on the Saturday 20th June.
Sheffield Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers (CDAS) Benefit Gig
Friday 12th June, 7.30pm -11.30pm
Cafe Euro, John Street, just off Bramall Lane and London Road.
An evening of music with The Sicknotes and Joe Wan and Aalok, joining the Na Zdrove House Band for a curtain-raising event on the eve of Refugee Week.
Admission is £5 (£3 unwaged)
FREE to asylum seekers and all proceeds go to Sheffield CDAS.
Sheffield Unite Against Fascism Rallies
Friday June 12 at 5pm - Meet outside Sheffield Town Hall. Bring your banners. We will have leaflets available for people to take to the bus & railway station, trade unions, faith & community groups. We will also be encouraging people to take leaflets to advertise our activities in local communities as part of our 'Not in my street, not in my city' initiative.
Saturday June 13 at 11am - Join the regional protest in Leeds meeting on Woodhouse Moor [Hyde Park]. For transport details email info@sheffielduaf.org.uk
Saturday June 27 at 11am - Rally in Barkers' Pool. Please bring your banners.
For more information contact info@sheffielduaf.org.uk
KEEP THE NWOSE FAMILY
SAFE IN SHEFFIELD
Join the Nwose Family Campaign launch
Sheffield Town Hall steps
Friday 26 June from 4.30pm
Bring banners, placards, friends and family to send
a clear message
The Nwose family have suffered enough.
The Nwose family must stay
The Nwose family fled Nigeria after Ubaka Nwose was arrested, tortured and shot for taking part in a workers' rights demonstration. (He still has the bullet lodged in his spine).
His wife Elizabeth and their four children were subsequently targeted by Nigerian military intelligence and tortured.
The family has made their home in Sheffield for this past four years but now the Home Office is trying to deport them.
They were seized from their home and detained at Yarls Wood Detention Centre but the children, Stephanie, aged 12, Desmond, 11 and Raphael, six, were too afraid to board an airplane and campaigners helped to secure their release.
For updates, model letters and petitions go to www.sheffield-cdas.org.uk
To contact the Nwose Family Campaign phone: 07910 455073
Asylum Seeker Support Initiative Short Term Sheffield ASSIST)
Annual General Meeting 2009,
Thursday 25th June 2009 5:30pm - 9pm, Quaker Meeting House Sheffield
ASSIST, the principal provider of welfare and housing to destitute asylum seekers in Sheffield, the first City of Sanctuary, invites you to attend its latest Annual General Meeting; an opportunity to meet the trustees and some of our clients and to have your say.
Principal Speaker Sheila Cassidy [prisoner of conscience Chile 1975]
Plus Dr Stephen Croft, the new Bishop of Sheffield
Formal meeting from 7.30pm, followed by open discussion of the project.
BCAF Quarterly Forum Meeting
Saturday June 20th, 12pm-3pm at the Burngreave Vestry Hall
This meeting will include two of BCAF's Working Groups will be leading discussions on their areas of work:
* Transition Burngreave will be looking at how to ensure a
sustainable future for the Burngreave community given widespread
concerns regarding Climate change and Peak Oil.
* Members of the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Working Group will be
asking for ideas and suggestions to widen the focus of the group.
Initial proposals are for the group to look at the three issues of
Cohesion, Diversity and Sanctuary - the discussion will centre on what
this will mean in practice and how best the group can engage with these
topics.
For more information contact Dan Stanley, Daniel.Stanley@bcaf.org.uk