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- We are Refugee Week 2010 & we want everyone to do at least 1 of our 20 Simple Acts, to make a big change to how refugees are perceived in the UK.
Simple Acts is about inspiring people to use small, everyday actions to change perceptions of refugees.
It consists of 20 actions that can be done by anyone and that encourage us to learn and do more with refugees. With every person who joins in and does a small thing with and for refugees, we get a little closer to removing barriers between communities and to creating the kind of world we all want to live in.
Every journey begins with a single step and it is with simple acts of kindness, generosity and empathy that we can begin the change. Please join us.
www.simpleacts.org.uk
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- Gloria Estefan (her father was a Cuban refugee) / Justine Frischmann (lead singer of Elastica. Her father was a Hungarian refugee) / Mika (who fled from Beirut Lebanon) / Wyclef Jean (Haitian refugee who named his group Fugees) / M.I.A. (English-born singer and part of a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee family) / Bob Marley (who fled Jamaica to Miami after being shot during political violence) / Olivia Newton-John (granddaughter of refugee Max Born) / Claude-Michel Schonberg (composer whose works include Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. He is the son of refugees) / Gene Simmons (member of Kiss. His mother was a Holocaust survivor) / Sir Georg Solti (conductor and refugee) / Georg Ritter and Maria von Trapp (father and mother of the von Trapp Family Singers, whose story inspired The Sound of Music after fleeing Nazi occupied Austria) / K'Naan (Somali Hip Hop Artist who fled to Toronto, Canada)
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- http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/InfoCe...
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- making friends and discovering new things
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We’re redefining the dictionary!
Hey.
We’re redefining the dictionary!
We want to check out what it is that we talk about when we talk about refuge.
Our very simple idea is this: to get loads of people to say what the word “refuge” means to them. The more definitions we find, the closer we all get to understanding what people we call “refugees” are about.
Create your own video and upload it onto your profile, or at www.Wordia.com
Check out some other peeps definitions at www.simpleacts.org.uk
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Hey We're holding a little competition!
We're inviting everyone to take a picture of themselves with a pro-refugee banner, and to upload it on their profile.
You don't need a snazzy camera, you can just use your phone (of course - snazzy cameras are welcome).
Then either send us a copy, or a link to your page.
The most original / funniest photo wins. (and the winner gets a funky Simple Acts Journal
Take a look at some our photo's for inspiration.
You’ve got ‘til the fist March!
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Simple Acts41 weeks agoSimple Acts you can do:
1. Cook a dish from another country
2. Tell a child a story from another country
3. Watch a movie about refugees
4. Do a quiz on refugees
5. Say a little prayer for me
6. Read a book about exile
7. Sign off your email with a note about refugees
8. Find five facts about refugees
9. Find out who you REALLY are
10. Visit a Refugee Week event
11. Smile
12. Learn to say a few things in a new language
13. Have tea with a refugee
14. Share a song
15. Join a big action campaign in support of refugees
16. Share your sweets
17. Give a book about refugees as a present to someone
18. Define the word “Refuge”
19. Take a picture of you and your pro-refugee banner
20. Play football with a refugee
www.simpleacts.org.uk