A COFFEE morning to raise funds for Christian Aid will be held in Catshill on Saturday (May 13).
The event, at Catshill Methodist Church between 10am and midday, will have egg or bacon butties on offer and there will also be a plant stall and a bring and buy sale.
The funds raised will go towards refugees including Nejebar and her family (pictured) who escaped Afghanistan where her husband was threatened with torture and death for being a Government worker.
They have since arrived in Greece with just a tent for shelter from the elements, no school for their children and no idea of what will happen them next. They originally planned to stay there for ten days but it has now been over six months.
Nejebar’s husband Noor describes their initial reaction to arriving in the camp in Greece: “It was like suicide for us. But we took the decision that it is better to die here than to die there from war.”
David Morgan, Catshill Methodist Church’s senior steward, said: “Whilst politicians busy themselves with trying to get elected or re-elected and the average man or woman in the street wonders how Brexit will affect them, it’s sometimes good to remember that there are many people in the world who are more concerned with their very existence than future elections or economy, like Nejebar.”
Christian Aid has been there for refugees since 1945, providing essential food, shelter and legal assistance for people far from home.
