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		<title>&#8220;Food &amp; Enterprise&#8221; &#8211; a new start for resettled refugee women in Greater Manchester</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2012/01/food-enterprise-a-new-start-for-resettled-refugee-women-in-manchester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BASIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gateway Protection Programme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greater Manchester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugee community organisations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being resettled to a new country would be daunting for anyone, but it’soften particularly tough for refugee women.  In Greater Manchester, the Gateway Women’s Group was set up in 2009 to give women refugees the chance to come together and build their confidence.  Many of the refugee women resettled to Greater Manchester were initially too nervous to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity chef Levi Roots launches Refugee Action’s World Food Night!</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2012/01/celebrity-chef-levi-roots-launches-refugee-action%e2%80%99s-world-food-night/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2012/01/celebrity-chef-levi-roots-launches-refugee-action%e2%80%99s-world-food-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In depth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  Sign up to hold your World Food Night here - we’ll send you everything you need to get started! Back in 2011, our fundraising team started work on our first ever national event – World Food Night!  After months of hush-hush planning, preparation and recipe gathering, we’ve just launched a website to tell you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in Pinyidu Refugee Camp</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2012/01/christmas-in-pinyidu-refugee-camp/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2012/01/christmas-in-pinyidu-refugee-camp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our very special New Year&#8217;s Day blog post comes to you all the way from Gambela, Ethiopia, where Refugee Action founder trustees Colin Hodgetts and Julia Meiklejohn are living. Colin and Julia spent Christmas at Pinyidu Refugee Camp, where around 20,000 Sudanese men, women and children have fled to escape violence in their neighbouring country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All we (still) want for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/12/all-we-still-want-for-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/12/all-we-still-want-for-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness raising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fundraising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugee Action staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[destitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liverpool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manchester]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-term readers of the Refugee Action blog might remember our Christmas blog from way back in December 2009: “All we want for Christmas is you!”.  Festively soundtracked by Mariah Carey, it asked our staff what they were hoping for that Christmas and New Year (serious wishes and not-so-serious wishes). This year (to save them from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Appeal &#8211; Find out more about Fresh Start</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/12/winter-appeal-find-out-more-about-fresh-start/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/12/winter-appeal-find-out-more-about-fresh-start/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[destitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fresh Start]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year, our Winter Appeal and Alternative Advent Calendar are raising money for destitute asylum seekers.  One of the ways we work to  ease destitution is through our Fresh Start project, an innovative service supporting female asylum seekers in Leicester.  As we prepared for  the appeal, one of our volunteers visited Fresh Start to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday blog 4: Happy 30th, Refugee Action!</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/birthday-blog-4-happy-30th-refugee-action/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/birthday-blog-4-happy-30th-refugee-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Refugee Action’s 30th birthday.  I hope you’ve enjoyed celebrating with us in recent weeks. Our 30th birthday blogs have taken us on a whistle-stop tour of Refugee Action through the 80s, 90s and 00s, and the reflections and positivity of our staff and volunteers during that time has been humbling for me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday blog 3:  Asylum and the media in the 2000s</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/birthday-blog-3-refugees-asylum-and-the-media-in-the-2000s/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/birthday-blog-3-refugees-asylum-and-the-media-in-the-2000s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the third of our Birthday Blogs, Media Officer Julia Ravenscroft looks back at media perceptions of asylum in the 2000s.  It was a difficult time for asylum seekers and those who worked with them, but are things any better today? Ah, the noughties. It was the decade that began with 9/11 and the War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday blog 2: What Refugee Action did in the 1990s</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/birthday-blog-2-what-refugee-action-did-next-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/birthday-blog-2-what-refugee-action-did-next-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In depth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosovo, Medevac, the Women&#8217;s Project&#8230; So much went on for Refugee Action in the 1990s it can be hard to know where to start. To find out more, we spoke to some former (and one current) Refugee Action staff about their 90s projects… Jack Shieh OBE – Former Director of Refugee Action Jack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday blog 1:  A message from Refugee Action&#8217;s founder trustees</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/refugee-action-is-30-heres-a-message-from-our-trustees-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/10/refugee-action-is-30-heres-a-message-from-our-trustees-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In depth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This month it&#8217;s Refugee Action&#8217;s 30th birthday, and two of the people who were there at the very beginning were our founder trustees Colin Hodgett and Julia Meiklejohn. Now living and working in Gambella, Ethiopia, they sent us this birthday message for our staff conference back in July.  As our birthday approaches, we&#8217;d like to share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An insider&#8217;s guide to the Wellbeing Project</title>
		<link>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/09/an-insiders-guide-to-the-wellbeing-project/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.refugee-action.org/2011/09/an-insiders-guide-to-the-wellbeing-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Refugee Action, we’ve recently been raising money for one of our most innovative projects – our Wellbeing Project in Manchester.  Our campaign got off to a flying start last week, when a group of our supporters raised more than £2000 with a fundraising night in Altrincham.  But just what is the Wellbeing Project, [...]]]></description>
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