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Horizons
Refugees Welcome Here
Wellbeing Project
Time Together
Gateway Protection Programme
Refugee Realities Project
Horizons
Horizons is a supported volunteer service for adult refugees and asylum-seekers who want to do voluntary work. More than 60 organisations from across Greater Manchester are signed up to the project.
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Refugees Welcome Here
Refugees Welcome Here is a major campaign to give refugees and asylum seekers a better welcome in Greater Manchester. We are inviting organisations to sign-up to a welcome pledge and demonstrate their commitment to promoting positive interaction between the people who make up our many varied communities.
Refugee Welcome Here campaign website
Wellbeing Project
Based in Manchester, the Wellbeing Project empowers asylum seekers and refugees through arts and sports-based activities. This project brings together people from all walks of life to take part in team sports, arts-based activities and social events.
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Time Together
We run a mentoring scheme offering help and friendship to vulnerable refugees in Bolton in partnership with Timebank. This project is co-ordinated in Manchester by Refugee Action and offers refugees the chance to spend five hours a month with a mentor from the local community.
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Gateway Protection Programme
A team of resettlement workers from Refugee Action is supporting refugees who are being offered protection as part of a United Nations international resettlement programme.
The men, women and children from Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo came in November 2004 to start a new life in Bolton after living in refugee camps for years.
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Refugee Realities Project
Aiming to make organisations and communities in Greater Manchester better informed about refugees and asylum seekers through training and presentations.