Students and staff from a Rotherhithe school are walking around London later this month to raise money for refugees.
Starting at Southwark Cathedral, the group from Bacon’s College will make a series of stops at various locations of significance to the plight of refugees and migrants in London – and will be accompanied by former refugees as they go.
These will include a statue outside Liverpool Street station celebrating the Kindertransport, when thousands of children were smuggled over from Nazi Germany to the UK in the 1930s and 1940s.
Another stop is the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid (or mosque), which was once a church set up Huguenot refugees from France in the eighteenth century, and a synagogue for Jewish people in the nineteenth century.
Each stop will be an opportunity to hear about the experiences of different groups of refugees that have come to the UK.
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The walk will finish back at Bacon’s College for afternoon tea and an Agape Service with the school community – a communal meal shared among Christians.
The walk is part of a wider fundraising effort to raise money for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), provides practical assistance to refugees arriving in the UK who have no access to government support while their claims are being processed.
Students at Bacon’s College will also be creating Christmas gift parcels and hand made cards for refugees over the festive period.
To donate to the fundraiser click here.