{"id":5334,"date":"2022-02-11T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2022-02-11T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:12:56","slug":"si-epsom-learn-about-the-epsom-refugee-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/2022\/02\/11\/si-epsom-learn-about-the-epsom-refugee-network\/","title":{"rendered":"SI EPSOM LEARN ABOUT THE EPSOM REFUGEE NETWORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/2022\/02\/10\/epsom-refugee-network-visit\/\">SI Epsom<\/a> were joined at their club Zoom meeting recently by Jo Sherring, coordinator from Epsom Refugee Network (ERN) this week.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">She told them how refugees are people who have been forced to flee because of persecution, war or violence in their own country and that they would go home if they felt it safe to do so. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">She described how ERN was formed in 2015 and grew out of the Epsom and Ewell Foodbank as there were many refugees and asylum seekers who went there. ERN work with many people from Syria and are expecting 5 families from Afghanistan soon to arrive in the Epsom and Ewell Borough for resettlement.\u00a0 As a result,\u00a0ERN are one of the largest refugee charities in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">Help is offered to refugees in the form of access to translators, doctors, dentists, legal help and other local support services such as the Citizen\u2019s Advice Bureau and charities such as\u00a0 Migrateful, Tern and RefuAid. They are being supported with English language tuition delivered by volunteers. They are given support with job skills like the driving theory test and food hygiene. Some come from wealthy families but need their self-esteem raised. Others may have been doctors and teachers in their own countries but need the language skills . They may have to retrain if they want to work in the same profession. Children are supported in school with language teaching and they are helped with homework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">ERN needs support from outside and this includes: private landlords who are willing to rent, financial support to help furnish properties for new families arriving in the UK, support for school uniform, afterschool clubs and training or skills for adults. They need more volunteers to teach English and\u00a0support with homework. Training is given to all volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">You can find out more about ERN\u2019s work here:<a style=\"color: #333399\" href=\"https:\/\/epsomrefugeenetwork.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none\">\u00a0https:\/\/epsomrefugeenetwork.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">Members from<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/surrey-hills\/\"> SI Surrey Hills<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/\">SI Solent East<\/a> also attended the meeting and plenty of interesting questions were asked!\u00a0\u00a0See the video clip from the meeting on SI Epsom\u2019s website by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/2022\/02\/10\/epsom-refugee-network-visit\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Epsom were joined at their club Zoom meeting recently by Jo Sherring, coordinator from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clubs-news","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SI EPSOM LEARN ABOUT THE EPSOM REFUGEE NETWORK | News | Blog | Events | SI Southern England<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Southern England : Blog &amp; News : SI EPSOM LEARN ABOUT THE EPSOM REFUGEE NETWORK : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Southern England . 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