Charity launches initiative to send supportive notes to asylum-seekers amid hotel attacks
A police officer extinguishes a small fire during an anti-immigration demonstration outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, August 4, 2024
A REFUGEE charity has launched an initiative for people to send welcoming handwritten notes to asylum-seekers staying in hotels amid unrest incited by the far right.
Conversation Over Borders has said that it has received over 150 messages since putting out the call, which will be sent to hotels, including those targeted in recent attacks.
Chief executive Colette Batten-Turner said: “It’s incredible to see it, I think it’s so important the voices we are hearing, most are the voices of far-right extremism, that it’s actually really not representative of most people in the UK.”
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