VOLUNTEERS and representatives from the churches in Frome held a coffee morning at Wesley Church on Saturday 6th May, raising over £400 for Christian Aid.
Organiser Jean Fraser said, “Refugees are a difficult question but they are a fact. They are people – parents, children, teenagers, elderly folk. Christian Aid have been there for refugees since 1945 and this is their theme this year, and sadly it is true.”
Nejebar, a young woman with two children, from Afghanistan said, “It’s better to die in a refugee camp than to die in a war. To risk your children’s lives in a plastic dinghy and to leave everything you know behind, when the alternative is terror, bombs and bullets, almost anything is better.”
Noor, her husband, a teacher, said, “The last days and weeks in Afghanistan were the hardest. When I went to work my heart was beating harder. I didn’t know if my family were going to be alive when I got back.”
They fled Afghanistan after the Taliban threatened to kill Noor. It wasn’t an idle threat. The Taliban first blinded, then murdered, another member of their family.”
Churches Together will be collecting in the centre of Frome this month on Monday 15th, Wednesday 17th, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th May.
