QUOTES FROM THE MEDIA
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HAVE A ‘TASTE OF THEIR PREVIOUS LIFE’ THANKS TO BIKE CHARITY Ukrainian refugees have said they have experienced ‘a taste of our previous life’ because of a charity which gives refurbished second-hand bikes to those who have been displaced. Charity The Bike Project … takes second-hand or abandoned bikes, mends them and provides them to refugees and asylum seekers living in London and Birmingham. Kateryna Herych, 38, fled Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 26 with her eight-year-old daughter Daniella Googe… The pair have used their bikes to explore new places in London, with a trip to Richmond Park to see deer being cited as a highlight of their visits… Viktoriia Korneiuk, 27, a lawyer who came to London a month ago from Ukraine, was excited to receive an orange bike from the charity… She [said] that the project is ... ‘important’ ... because it allows refugees to ‘integrate into society’… Katherine Potsides, the events manager at Herne Hill velodrome, which has been a donation centre for The Bike Project for over a year, said: ‘Giving refugee families access to a working bike is a really important way of getting people settled into their lives here.’ ITV News
SOCIAL HOUSING: VOW TO BUILD 1,000 HOMES IN WALES AMID BACKLOG
CHURCH OFFERS OVERNIGHT CAMPING TO AVOID CLOSURE
The Welsh government has promised 1,000 new homes to help people stuck waiting for accommodation. The £62m social housing scheme includes bringing unused properties back into use quickly, converting buildings, manufacturing modular homes and might involve turning offices into homes… The homes will not have to meet the usual standards for new social housing… Of the £62m, roughly £12m is being spent on bringing 400 homes back to use which are already owned by social housing providers but need significant work. A further £12m will be spent on modular homes which are built in a factory.
Campers are being invited to have overnight stays in a Victorian church to help save the building from closure. St Dona’s church in Llanddona, Anglesey, is believed to be the first church in Wales to offer the experience of church camping or ‘champing’ for tourists. The idea came about after the church was mooted for closure, so parishioners wanted to find other ways to use it… The Right [Rev] Mary Stallard, assistant bishop in Bangor ... said... ‘There was something unique about the experience of sleeping in a church. I found an ambience of holy hospitality’.
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WINDRUSH GENERATION MAKES OUR CULTURE RICHER, SAYS PRINCE WILLIAM AS MONUMENT UNVEILED AT WATERLOO Black men and women are still facing racism and discrimination in modernday Britain in a nation that would be poorer without the efforts of the Windrush generation, the Duke of Cambridge has said. William was speaking as he and the Duchess of Cambridge attended the unveiling of a national monument at London’s Waterloo station to celebrate the dreams and courage of the Windrush generation who came to help Britain rebuild after the Second World War. The monument is a 12-ft statue – of a man, woman and child in their Sunday best standing on top of suitcases – that was unveiled … to mark Windrush Day… William said: ‘We know without question that the Windrush generation have made our culture richer, our services stronger and our fellow countrymen safer.’ William also spoke of the Windrush scandal which began to surface in 2017 after it emerged that hundreds of Commonwealth citizens, many of whom were from the Windrush generation, had been wrongly detained, deported and denied legal rights… Communities Secretary Michael Gove described the event as a ‘historical and profoundly moving moment’ but also said ‘sorry’ for the pain which had been caused by the Windrush scandal. ITV News
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