Refugee Week 2022

This week is Refugee Week, 'an annual festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees'.  This year's theme is 'healing'.  A refugee is 'a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster'.

We are inviting you to do one simple act - read a book about refugees and start a discussion.  Reading is a great way to walk in someone else's shoes and build up empathy for their situation.  The Library has a selection of books for you to choose from and you may like to check out the list of 40 children's books to raise awareness for Refugee Week 20-26 June on the LoveReading4Kids website.

You can find out more about refugees by going to Refugee Action website - click here.  Famous people who you may not know were refugees are children's author Judith Kerr, singer Rita Ora and footballer Victor Moses - to find out more, click here.