THE HERALD FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 2017
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11 News Cariad i’r Byd at the Morlan Centre COMMUNITY group Aberaid
held ‘Cariad i’r Byd’, an evening of story, song and food, at the Morlan Centre on Thursday, January 26. The event was to raise money for Aberaid’s Community Sponsorship Programme. If it goes ahead, the Programme will sponsor a refugee family to come and live in Aberystwyth. Over 200 people attended Cariad i’r Byd and the Morlan was packed. Organiser Julie Makin told The
Herald: “Last night was crazy, amazing, wonderful. A magnificent £2.127.30 was raised on the night. We can’t thank people enough! A big thank you must go to the Morlan for all their support, and for hosting us so brilliantly once again. Thanks also to performers Peter Stevenson, Jez Danks, Mary Ann Constantine and friends, and to local band Three Legg’d Mare, who all donated their time and performed so brilliantly. And we couldn’t have fed so many people without kind donations of food from supporters and from our Syrian community. A big thanks to Medina, The Pelican bakery, Ultracomida, Bow Street butchers, Dominos and Tesco for their contributions of food for the buffet, and to Mind Aberystwyth who lent us their serving dishes!”
COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMME
Lindsey Gaunt, an Aberaid
coordinator, added: “We are now in a position to officially launch our refugee Community Sponsorship Programme, and this evening is the culmination of a couple of months of hard work by many people in developing a vision and a plan of action for how to accomplish this. We first met as a group of around 40 people last November, to discuss how and if at all we felt that we could do this. “It is no small undertaking, to
assume responsibility for sponsoring and supporting a family to come to
Aberaid recently held ‘Cariad i’r Byd’: An evening of story, song and food (Pic. Felix Cannadam)
(L-R): Lindsay Cardwell, Julie Making, Rocet Arwel Jones and Bethan Miles (Cymru i Bawb) (Pic. Marian Delyth)
An appreciative and attentive audience: At The Morlan Centre (Pic. Felix Cannadam) Kelvin Mason
kelvin.mason@herald.email
our community, and it is thanks to the work and support of everyone here this evening that we know now that we are going to make it happen. “We would like to say a particular
word of thanks to the group Cymru i Bawb, who have been tireless
supporters, both with moral support and with fundraising. We started an online Crowdfunder back in December to begin the fundraising effort. We needed to raise £9,000 to sponsor one family with children to come and live here with us. Together with the money raised this evening, we are now looking at a total of £16,443! We can’t thank people enough for their generosity and support! We
can now begin work on developing the Resettlement Plan. We will be meeting with Ceredigion County Council who will need to approve our plan before we submit it to the Home Office. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we are able to welcome another Syrian family into the Aberystwyth community!” Rocet Arwel Jones, of Cymru i Bawb, said: “Llongyfarchiadau Aberaid! Roedd
hi’n braf gallu gwneud cyfraniad bychan at achos mor bwysig, sy’n tanlinellu unwaith eto ymrwymiad Aberystwyth i fod yn dref ac ardal gynhwysol a goddefgar.” (Congratulations to Aberaid! We were pleased to be able to make a small contribution to such an important cause, which yet again underlines Aberystwyth’s commitment to being an inclusive and tolerant town and district.)
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