12 November 2019 Halesworth & Southwold Community News Hope and Aid Direct


MANY of your readers were present at St Margaret’s Church, Reydon, for that uplifting choral celebration of the Eucharist during which our son Charles spoke, simply and without histrionics, about the global refugee crisis and the work of Hope and Aid Direct. The collection on behalf of the charity has risen to £1,254, including Gift Aid, but perhaps even


more


scale of the global crisis is better understood. I have written to the Rev Alan Perry, the


Churchwardens, and


everyone who worked so hard to say a very big thank you. Meanwhile the global refugee crisis gets ever worse. As I write


this, events on


the Syrian/Turkish border have added another 100,000 homeless/refugees to the problem, some agencies say


importantly, the


more! The tit-for-tat goes on: Trump threatens sanctions against Turkey which responds by threatening to allow 3.4 million refugees to enter Europe. This is about fellow human beings, who are being treated like pawns in a giant game of chess! To turn to the crisis in the Greek islands; the UN High Commissioner for Refugees states that new arrivals in September totalled 10,258, that is 342 every day, and the islands now host 30,000 asylum seekers! The notorious


Moria centre on


Lesvos now houses 12,600 people, five times its capacity. Tensions remain high and a recent fire in a container being used


to house people,


the Moria reception centre on Lesvos. On the island of Samos the reception


Vathy centre now lead


to the death of a woman and violent clashes with the police. The photograph shows rows of tents huddled together outside


houses 5,500, eight times its capacity! Most sleep in tents with little access to latrines, clean water or medical care. On the tiny island of Chios 3,000 are confined in a space intended for 700. As the UNHCR says, ‘keeping people on the islands in these inadequate and insecure conditions is inhumane, and must come to an end!’ The global situation worsens daily with continuing riots in Hong Kong, Cairo, Libya and Tunisia, Ecuador, Brazil and Venezuela as growing numbers see no hope for the future, and corrupt Presidents think only of me, me, me! Nearer to home 1,456 ‘illegal’ migrants arrived across the English Channel and one Iranian woman was lost


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overboard, during September. We have returned more than 90 to France. Against this background the


work of H and AD becomes ever more urgent and important. Accordingly, before the convoy departs, and in co-operation with charities in Reading and Cambridge, the 40 ton truck will take a load of much needed aid to refugees living in squalor near


Calais. The convoy is


planned to depart on Sunday 27th October: so at least the trucks will enter the EU whilst we are still a member state! Many generous donations in kind have been received, some from companies in Germany, so an additional 7.5 ton truck has been hired, at a cost of £1,800, and the convoy will comprise the 40 ton articulated truck, and 3 x 7.5 tonners. Donations include 160 x 8-man tents, 1,000 camping mats, 4 palettes of pasta, and 28,000 new sets of men’s underwear; the latter from a company in Germany and they will be collected ‘en route’, plus your lovely gifts of warm clothing, bedding and blankets, many hand knitted. Thank you.


Margaret and Jack Storer


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In Cross-County Book Tour


ADNAMS and other local businesses took part in the Suffolk-wide book journey, a week-long relay across the county from Monday 7th – Saturday 12th October in a bid to help generate support for Suffolk Libraries. Suffolk based novel ‘The Huntingfield Paintress’ by Pamela Holmes is travelling from Bungay to Haverhill in a variety of ways from electric vehicles and bikes to runners and boat, visiting all 44 of the county’s libraries in between. In true Adnams style, the Southwold-based


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