Tag archives for Rossana Leal
A Taste of Hope
ELLA LOWDEN To celebrate this year’s Refugee Week, venues across Hastings and St Leonards are taking part in a food festival, organised by The Refugee Buddy Project. Recipes of Courage is…
Refugee Week 2023
GARETH STEVENS This year’s Refugee Week in Hastings, Rother and Wealden will launch on Sunday 18 June at at the Hastings Contemporary. The sheer span of the events and activities…
May Day Mayday – Public Services in Crisis
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Jeremy Corbyn, the MP for Islington North, was guest of honour at the annual Hastings May Day Workers’ Day March last Saturday (29 April). Several hundred marchers set…
Embracing Equity
The Stade played host to a series of sporting, political and cultural events on Sunday 12 March under the designation Hear Me Roar to mark International Women’s Day (IWD). The day…
Café of Sanctuary
Gareth Stevens talks to Rossana Leal and Yeser Mohammed at the Refugee Buddy Project’s new Dove Café on Bexhill Road. In a month in which a government minister conceded that…
Hastings Refugee Week
This year, Refugee Week (20-26 June) will see a unique series of creative actions and events taking place in multiple locations across Hastings & St Leonards and beyond which highlight…
Council Pledges On Refugees
At a full council meeting on 22nd July Hastings Borough Council passed a motion unanimously pledging support for refugees. The motion, introduced by Cllr Andy Batsford, cabinet leader on housing,…
Refugee Week 2020
By Fiona McGarry This year the theme of Refugee Week (15th-21st June) is ‘Imagine’. It’s important that we do try to imagine, so we can begin to understand how people…
A Moveable Feast
By Safiya Young August has been a very exciting month, in terms of cooking. Women’s Voice, a “non-profit CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) run by and for women in Hastings and…
Syrian Resettlement: “Working Brilliantly”, Says Project Co-ordinator
Simon Finlay, Project Co-ordinator of the Syrian Resettlement Programme at Hastings Borough Council, seems a happy man these days. He has spent half a lifetime working for organisations that have…
A Celebration of Sanctuary
On 13th June the “open” project at Open on sea-front was launched with its first exhibition of photographs by Andrew Grainger. This venue is to be run by the 20…
The Refugee Experience: A Two-tier System
In September 2015, the then Prime Minister David Cameron pledged that the UK would welcome 20,000 refugees from camps on the borders of Syria over the next five years. The…
Passion Wins Over Process
The reconfiguring of open on grand parade Rossana Leal, whose award of Woman of the Year at the Women on the Move ceremony was featured in HIP issue 123, has…
Safety in a Land where Men wear Skirts
Rosanna and Family in Chile 1970 Not all refugees coming to Britain have to be isolated and treated with hostility. Rossana Leal has recently founded a Buddy project for the…