Refugee Week 2024

The theme for Refugee Week 2024 was “Our Home”. Between ourselves and several of our members we put on a fantastic programme of events, which reached a record number of people across Calderdale!

Here you can read Calderdale’s Refugee Week 2024 poem, written by Hina and Faith.

Refugee Week Poem 2024: Home
Written by Hina and Faith

A conversation between thoughts of fear (him) and reality & hopefulness (her)

Her: Home is where the heart is, so I am told. It’s where we share our laughter and shed Our tears.
Home is where the heart is, a place of warmth and light.

Him: Home is an idea I easily carry and move around with depending on where life throws me in that moment, and that moment home became a journey of a thousand miles to the unknown, where there is no stench of death from wars.

Her: It’s where we find our purpose and where our soul takes flight. Let us fly, up high to the clouds of wisdom and touch the sky
Make this world a better place, a place called “Home.”

Him: This was it. I beamed, home is finally here. But no, here home was the feeling of craving for acceptance, acceptance to belong.

Her: Heal yourself and heal the world, come hold my hand praising our dreams. A place of dreams of hopes, built from bricks of love, prosperity and dignity! We are living, You, Me and Us

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