Felicity Dick a Trustee of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group www.gdwg.org.uk spoke to the Club about the project Refugee Tales. The Refugee Tales Walk will be launched this year in St Albans on Friday, 6 July. It is like a Modern Day Canterbury Tales and will end in Westminster on 11 July.
Felicity is pictured here accepting a donation from our President-Elect Katherine Clark.
On Sat 7 July we are welcome to join the walk from St Albans to Hertford (or part of it) – please click on the links below for more details and email refugeetales@gdwg.org.uk if you’d like to join in
http://refugeetales.org/the-walk-of-2018/ and http://refugeetales.org/book-for-refugee-tales-walk-2018/
On the evening of Sat 7 July there is an event in Hertford that sounds lovely – just click on the link below if you want to attend
http://refugeetales.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/RefTales_Hertford_Poster_A4_small.pdf
Felicity spoke in some depth about the work of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group. They work with people held at the immigration removal centre. The way that this system works goes against human rights because detention (unlike prison sentences) is indefinite even though many detainees have not committed a crime.