MORE than 50 people attended a special exhibition for National Refugee Week visited the Quaker Meeting House at Bradford on Avon last Saturday.
The exhibition featured information about organisations helping refugees. It included the From Syria With Love exhibition of artwork by refugee children living in primitive conditions in camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.
The charity’s founder, Baraa Kouja, who is himself a refugee from Syria, gave a talk and showed a film about conditions in his home city of Aleppo before the war and the situation now.
Organiser Hazel Jones said: “Many townspeople visited the exhibition and it was good to have a visit from a Wiltshire refugee family.
“I helped to look after the children during the afternoon and they enjoyed playing with the toys from the children's room at the Meeting House while their parents listened to the talk.”
The children also visited the newly re-dedicated Peace Garden at the Quaker Meeting House.
The £675 raised will go towards helping to provide education, art materials and teachers for the refugee children in the camps as many refugee children cannot get a place in schools in Lebanon, as well facilities such as indoor toilets.
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