The Big Themes:
Need to support hosts with training and local host support groups - it’s been encouraging to sit in with Flintshire’s Host Training Event and work through the e-learning course produced by The Sanctuary Foundation.
Facilitating the Ukrainians meet each other and provide mutual support - we were thrilled at the response to our ‘Gathering’ last Saturday. We’ve put a short report together below. Next week we are facilitating an evening Zoom Event & BBQ in June.
Conwy & Denbighshire have been running Well-being Clinics, on Mondays and Thursdays, for complete wrap around support - it is organised on an invitation to appointment system and provides unhurried care and conversation. We have been thrilled to be involved and spending time with other support agencies to generate a unified, co-ordinated approach and meeting Ukrainians often for a second or third time.
Auditing the experiences and skills and qualifications to support Ukrainians find appropriate work - more coming on checking the comparability of qualifications.
ESOL - we have 2 retired ESOL Teachers offering to support language skills for children and for adults - more information soon.
We have been collating information to try to make it easier to find in one place.
All our activities require funding and we are hugely grateful to a number of generous supporters - we have an on-line giving platform, but we prefer larger sums to be transferred direct by BACS - forms here.
The numbers are through for 6 Countries - they are constantly changing but give an idea of scale for providing support etc
