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Refugee Week comes to the Galleries

12 June 2007

WANT to find out what the link between the Mini Cooper and refugees is?
Or discover what it is really like to be an asylum seeker or refugee?
Want to know what you can do to help refugees in Bristol?

Shoppers to the Galleries this Wednesday (June 20) can have all their
questions about refugees answered when Refugee Action run an interactive
information display to mark Refugee Week.

Visitors can enter a refugee quiz or write a welcome postcard to a
refugee and receive a free canvas shopping bag. There will be free
balloons for children.

The event will be run by Refugee Action, a national, independent
charity that helps refugees to build new lives in the UK.

Staff and volunteers from the charity’s Refugee Awareness Project
will be on hand to offer free awareness-raising sessions with
visitors’ workplaces or groups. You can also talk to volunteer
refugee mentors from the TimeTogether project.

Refugee Week (June 18th to 24th) is an annual event that celebrates
refugees’ contributions to the UK through educational, artistic,
social and cultural events. Bristol has a rich history of welcoming
refugees and is holding many free public events this year.

For more information about other events in the city please go to
www.bristolrefugeeweek.co.uk.

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For more information please contact Julia Ravenscroft, press officer at
Refugee Action, on 0161 233 1956 or 07771 748 159.

Notes:

Refugee Action is an independent, national charity working to enable
refugees to build new lives in the UK. We provide practical advice and
assistance for newly arrived asylum seekers and long-term commitment to their settlement through community development work, and received 30,000 visits from asylum seekers last year. As one of the country’s leading agencies in the field, Refugee Action has 26 years’ experience in pioneering innovative work in partnership with refugees.