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Helping a refugee family, a Community Sponsorship programme

Home from Home videoWe are a group from Hallam Diocese who have responded to a call from Pope Francis in 2015 for ‘every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe’ to ‘host a refugee family...’

Our project aims to provide practical help to one family who find themselves in Sheffield through no design of their own. Our aim is to help them as they try to establish a new life in our midst.

Find out more and keep up to date with our progress by reading our newsletters

Stories in the press about refugees and asylum seekers:

I was at a crossroads…

We tried to be joyful…

In Solidarity

Home from Home Hallam looks back on a year of support for a refugee family Our mission is to act “in solidarity” with our Syrian family. But what does Solidarity…

Madrasa

Madrasa! The Arabic for school.  Schooling, the cement for our society was  a top priority for our newly arrived family with 3 small children.  It was  July. A school was…

Health care needs 

Our refugee family’s journey to health… Most of us are too well-aware of pressures on the NHS, but imagine navigating NHS services in a new country, with no English and…

Their new home

By Home From Home Hallam We continue the story of our support for a refugee family  Our family had been living in a tent, in a refugee camp in Lebanon. …