Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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Report written by Michael
Today was the final part of our mission to help Home4U finish off the flat for the refugee that would be moving in very soon. We arrived and said Hello to Ciara who was our contact today, it was such a wonderful thing to see each other again in person.
We realised once in the flat that there was only two light bulbs, but as we were only a smaller group that was fine. We donned our plastic bags / work gear for when the paint started flying and were introduced to the newest member of the wizarding World - Martin the Graff....
We got to work with the painting as much as we could, with some music on in the background and a chat about races that we wanted to take part in, holidays that we dream of again. One room down, it was time to move along to another and so the dance of the light bulb began....
Once we had light in the bedroom we made a start on the glossing, after a while longer the doors were finished and it was time to move the light bulb back. We gave a wall one more coat of paint of paint before it was time to down tools and head home for the evening.
We are a registered charity and work extensively with refugees and asylum seekers in Cardiff. We run two projects Space4U which runs a day centre teice a week and Home4U which seeks accommodation for destitute asylum seekers. We welcome over 150 refugees each week and offer advice, a safe place, English lessons, clothes store, a hot meal cooked by refugees, refreshments and general support.
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