Common Ground Presentation - Istanbul

BE OPEN TO EMOTIONS
WIN THE CENTRE
BUILD A COMMON CAUSE
USE THE RIGHT FRAME
MAKE THINGS BEAUTIFUL
BE READY TO TAKE RISKS
TELL STORIES
SMILE, IT’S OKAY TO BE GOOD

CAN YOU SEE THE LANDMINES?
THEY CAN’T EITHER.
GIVE NOW AND SAVE LIVES.
Children running down a path
in Luau, Angola. On both sides,
there are landmines.

BE OPEN TO EMOTIONS
WIN THE CENTRE
BUILD A COMMON CAUSE
USE THE RIGHT FRAME
MAKE THINGS BEAUTIFUL
TAKE RISKS
TELL STORIES
SMILE, IT’S OKAY TO BE GOOD

share. respect. enjoy.
the National Cycle Network is loved by many and open to all.
share the space and enjoy the path you’re on.
jointheconversation
facebook.com/sustrans
photographic poster route
share. respect. enjoy.
THE NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK IS LOVED BY MANY AND OPEN TO ALL.
SHARE THE SPACE AND ENJOY THE PATH YOU’RE ON
jointheconversationfacebook.com/sustrans

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Cut out and keep campaign glasses
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We believe that every child
has the right to walk, cycle or
scoot to school. To make this
happen, we need government
to commit to establishing
lower traffic speeds and better
walking and cycling routes.
Sign below to join the Safer
Streets campaign and tell
your MP that you want your
children to be able to walk,
cycle or scoot to school.
We want
to see a safer
school run.
Let’s make
it happen.
#SafetoSchool
Sign a petition asking your local MP to make the school
run safer for our children. Why not print a copy out to
leave at your school’s reception?
Set up a walking bus to your child’s school with other
parents. Read our guide to ﬁnd out more.
Map ‘danger points’ on your school run and encourage others
to do the same by sharing your map with your community.
How do your children prefer to get to school – by bike, scooter
or foot? Photograph them in these cut-out-and-keep glasses
and upload the photos to our website.
Is your school run particularly tricky by bike, foot or scooter?
Why not ﬁlm your route and upload the video here.
Make your own road signs to place along your school run
route by following our tutorial.
If you’d like to make your school run safer, why not hold
a campaign meeting with your school’s PTA to see what
you could do locally?
Seven Steps to
Safer Streets
We want to see a safer school run. Show
your local MP that you care about creating
safer streets by joining our campaign with
one of these free, hands-on activities.
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Thank you for your support.
You are critical to our campaign.
For more hints and tips visit
www.sustrans.org.uk/safetoschool #SafetoSchool

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Facts and ﬁgures:
Behaviour
Trips to work made by cycle: 10%
Number of utility trips made
Number of leisure trips made
Trips to school made by cycle: 17%
Distance of utility trips
Distance of leisure trips
Bike user proﬁles
Age
As of 2014…
Gender Ethnicity Number of trips Frequency
Utility Leisure
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My friend brought me to Asylum Link three years ago. I was
homeless at the time. I now have job here as a volunteer.
I help cook for at least seventy people most days. I like to
help out and as a result I have made a lot of friends here.
Asylum Link has been great for my confidence.
Many people come here. They give food, tea, coffee. We
cook Asian food for people. I hope to get a job one day and
go to university. My English has become so much better
because of this place.
If I am granted permission to stay in this country I
would come back and help others at Asylum Link because it
is a lifeline for people in need like myself.
My life has been terrible in the past but Asylum Link
has helped get me through. I love it here. It has become
my home.
FAIZA ALI
Mara Nyirenda, cover photo
“Asylum Link has become a sanctuary
to me and many others – a safe space
where people can come together over
food and forget our differences.”
ASYLUM LINK
MERSEYSIDE
t 0151 709 1713
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Published November 2012
I was a farmer back in Sudan tending cows a
I came to Asylum Link in 2006 when my case to
UK was refused. I came here because I had no m
family, and nowhere to live.
Asylum Link has helped in so many ways
giving me English classes. When I first came I w
I was alone. I came here to meet people. Some e
my language.
I have made some very good friends he
in the kitchen, help give people clothes. I’ve n
Sudanese food yet but I hope to one day. Lamb
with spicy chili is my favourite. I have had status
since 2010 but still come here two days week to he
college to learn English. One day I would like to be
and decorator.
This place is important. It is the best pl
helped me when I struggled. This place is like m
There is no place like it. I will always help her
wherever I live, wherever I work, I think it is im
help others.
EISA THABIT
Supported by Faiths4Change
www.faiths4change.org.uk
Words and design by Creative Concern
www.creativeconcern.com
Photography by Ant Clausen
www.antclausen.com
Imagine if you were to walk out of your
work place this evening with nowhere to go,
no sense of purpose, and no possessions to
your name other than the clothes you’re
wearing. What would you do? How would
you get through the night?
That’s the position many of the people who use
Asylum Link Merseyside find themselves in every day –
stateless, destitute, demoralised, abused, alone.
You have to admire the sheer fortitude of these
people to carry on under such circumstances, in an asylum
system that marginalises them and actively keeps them from
becoming purposeful members of society.
The success of each project undertaken at Asylum Link is
defined by the personalities of the people who run it. And
this is absolutely the case with our allotment scheme. A
tenacious gardener will work wonders and we see this
re ected in the way many of our allotment plots have
ourished over the years.
We have found that by getting outside and working
with the earth people can – in a small way – overcome the
pressure of dealing with a harsh asylum process. It stops
them sitting inside, alone, isolated from the world – a
situation that often contributes to mental health issues.
However, as with every allotment across the UK,
the weather in 2012 has made for a really difficult year.
Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped us growing much needed
fruit and vegetables that find their way into the healthy
meals we provide for the very people who need our help.
Our Porridge 4 Breakfast project was borne out of necessity.
We needed to find a way of replacing bread at breakfast time
because it was becoming so expensive. Porridge is a good
staple, one of the best. It will take a hungry person through
a large part of the day whilst being cheap and nutritious.
It’s a remarkable thing to see people come into
Asylum Link after a night out on the street and fill up on
porridge. You can see the life ow back into them. But it’s
not just a nutritious meal, it’s a chance to share experiences
and have contact with others. For many of the people who
volunteer to prepare the porridge, it’s a way of reconnecting
with a world that they currently play no role in.
Food is not just a way of sustaining people. It’s an
opportunity to express social worth, to share with others
something of yourself and your culture. The Home &
Away project enables asylum seeker and refugee volunteer
cooks to connect with indigenous residents using food as
a common currency to share cooking skills, recipes, stories
and a meal. The volunteer cooks are still enjoying tasty
journeys across Merseyside from mums and chicken pie in
St Helen’s to baked samosas in Stockbridge Village.
Nobody likes to have to ask for help, however tough things
are, which is why our meal times are such an integral part
of what Asylum Link has become. It’s the time of the day
where people can come together and make a contribution to
the world. It’s also the chance to learn about wonderful new
recipes and cooking tips that people bring with them from
their home countries.
We secure fresh fruit and vegetables every week
from local shops so that people can eat healthily. Healthy
eating makes such a difference to people’s mental and
physical wellbeing, particularly people caught powerless
and alone in an unforgiving asylum process.
Working with an extremely limited budget we get
fresh food direct to the destitute – those with no money and
no home. It’s just a small contribution to the overall work of
Asylum Link, but we feel it helps give people the strength to
survive and carry on rebuilding their lives.
Asylum Link’s bike shop is a wonder to behold, engaging
many of the people who need our help in a practical way.
We receive bikes, broken parts and help from organisations
such as Liverpool John Moores University and Merseyside
Police, to whom we are very grateful.
These odds and ends are then cobbled together to
create functioning bicycles by our enthusiastic volunteers.
The bike shop helps us in many ways. It makes mechanics
out of volunteers, which is a valuable life skill. It provides
us with bikes that we can then sell to raise funds for Asylum
Link or give to asylum seekers who simply don’t have the
money to use public transport. Then there are the obvious
health benefits that people get through cycling.
On average we can create one working bike out of
every three we receive by donation, which shows the great
ingenuity that our volunteers possess even when they’re at
their lowest ebb.
GROWING COOKING HOME & AWAY FIXING
Asylum Link Merseyside exists to help bring people back
into society step by step, to make them feel valued again.
We help them reconnect physically and emotionally with
those around them and offer a safe place to be themselves
while they fight to remain in the country.
But the line between success and failure is dreadfully
thin. We offer advice, support, friendship if needed but
often it’s just a hand to hold and a warm meal that helps get
people through the most difficult times of their lives.
Faiths4Change, in partnership with Asylum Link
Merseyside, have provided a link into local communities.
developing new relationships and forming new friendships.
Sharing time and experience has improved the living
environment for newcomers and existing populations alike.
We have very little money and raising the funds
to continue our work is a constant struggle. Organisations
such as Groundwork and Faiths4Change help us to create
life-changing projects such as the National Lottery funded
Target Wellbeing project. But we need more support.
We don’t always succeed in our work but we always
do our best – offering people a safe place where they can
stop merely surviving and start to live again.
ABOUT US
ASYLUM LINK MERSEYSIDE
Project: Postcard pack
Client: Asylum Link Merseyside

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