I explain most of what happened that night in the video but here brief comments from within our volunteer group:
-“It was emotional.”
-“Tears.”
-“Real.”
-“It was like one big family.”
-“It was a moment when the things that the children have gone through, might have seen become real to you.”
It was a massive emotional evening, when the term refugee started to become a feeling, rather than a description of a state for us. Without wanting to sound too pathetic. Even when in preparation of this blog I asked the others about what they thought, it got quiet and the air filled with bit of that night’s intensity again.
After all, it is one thing to read about displacement, suffering and hope and another to sit at a dinner table with its stories.
(This is a slightly adapted version of a contribution I made for my own, personal blog but thought it would be nice to share it here too.)
The R&R Volunteers Space 