Happy Christmas!
We hope this email finds you well, we can't believe we are almost at the end of 2021!
We have had a busy year - we are supporting many more students through a combination of our language and digital skills classes, with more due to start in the new year!
URGENT NEW YEAR LAPTOP APPEAL
Due to the huge demand and positive feedback following our Digital Skills Course pilot, we are looking to make the course more widely available by starting three new classes in the new year! The courses will be offered free of charge to asylum seekers, refugees and other vulnerable migrants across South Yorkshire.
To make this possible, we urgently need to buy five sets of headphones, five laptops, and a projector. We hope you can help!
A new set of headphones will cost £5.
A new laptop will cost £300.
A new projector will cost £200.
Any donation, big or small, will have a huge impact and enable us to keep providing such valuable classes.
To donate to our appeal please visit our GoFundMe page and give whatever you can.
As regular supporters may know, we work alongside Snowdrop Project to deliver classes to their clients who are survivors of human trafficking. We have recently started to run our Digital Skills course with some of the ladies there. It was wonderful to receive this feedback from one of the staff members there:
“One of our long-term clients, who has mobility problems and struggles with her mental health, has attended the IT classes. Over the years we have supported this client, she has struggled to engage with community activities, she faces many barriers and a lot of these are internal barriers, such as fear of meeting new people. This client has attended IT classes both weeks. She has managed to make her own way to the building and arrived for her class on time. This has not always been easy for our client and so it quite rightly feels like a massive achievement. Our client seemed so excited and told us today that she learnt how to type and delete things. She reported feeling confident to attend because the classes were held at the Snowdrop Project and so she felt safe. She also said the teacher has been very helpful.”
