#refugee-support

#refugee-support

The organisation has been providing life-saving support to millions of people around the world for a decade Since it was founded in 2015, Choose Love has worked across 51 countries and with over 600 local partners to deliver aid to displaced communities in need, supporting over 8.5 million people, providing 1.3 million people with access to life-saving medical support, and saving 40,700 lives at sea.

After Brackley high school, Dammy worked as a secretary in Oxford, Basel and London before moving in 1967 to Philadelphia in the US, where she worked as a secretary in the law school at the University of Pennsylvania. The state's brutal reaction to protests about the Vietnam war and civil and women's rights had a huge impact, strengthening her resolve to challenge wrongs and create change.

Reducing the move-on' period will increase levels of homelessness and destitution for people granted protection and put additional pressure on local authorities. The numbers don't add up. It takes around 35 days to receive universal credit. Local authorities need 56 days to work with households at risk of homelessness. Giving people only 28 days to find work, housing or support isn't enough time. Making people destitute ends up costing the taxpayer more money and causing distress and hardship.

Ava Sender Logan, who won the Double Gloucester cheese in a traditional race, donated her prize to the Refugee Community Kitchen to support those in need.