By Richard McKeever
To “share the love” on St Valentine’s Day we are promoting the Refugee Week Simple Acts campaign and encouraging our readers to head over to www.simpleacts.org.uk and take part. Simple Acts is inspiring individuals to consider 20 small, everyday actions which if carried out by a large number of people will help change perceptions of refugees and promote better relations between refugee and host communities. The aggregate effect of many small actions can be immense.
The actions, including “Tell a child a story from another country“, and “Cook a dish from another country” are all detailed on the Simple Acts website.
Simple Acts has been organised by the Refugee Week consortium: a UK wide programme of events celebrating the contribution of refugees to the UK. The Campaign takes a very similar approach to We Are What We Do, which was initiated at Community Links. Small actions X lots of people = Big Change!
A couple of years ago Community Links produced an Ideas Annual which celebrated community projects led by or working with Refugee and Asylum Seeking communities: “Small Places Close to Home” is available via our website. The Simple Acts campaign makes it possible for any individual to directly play a part and in helping achieve positive social change.
Keep it Simple…
