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To: Ceredigion County Council

Ceredigion County Council -Please take more than 10 Syrian refugees a year!

In 2015 Ceredigion County Council agreed to play its part in the refugee crisis response and to participate in the Home Office resettlement program which was a generous and supportive move.

Since July 2015 and March 2016 only 10 refugees have been resettled into Ceredigion, a county of 76,000 people and 1,790 KM sq, and the Council has subsequently announced its plan to resettle only 10 more in all of 2016.

This is not enough!

http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/cpdl/CeredigionStrategicPartnerships_Public/13.11.2%20Syria%20Refugees%20update.pdf

Meanwhile, more than 11 million people have been displaced from their homes in Syria and at least half of these are children. 6.6 million people are internally displaced. 5 million people are refugees seeking safety and shelter in other countries.

Why is this important?

Millions of people living in the refugee camps across the Middle East are living in complete squalor with very little food, clothing, warm bedding and access to education.

Between 2 and 3 million Syrian children are currently not attending any form of school.

There are:

• 2.7 million refugees in Turkey
• 1.8 million refugees in Lebanon
• 800,000 in Jordan.
• 250,000 in Iraq.
• 120,000 in Egypt.
• Record numbers claimed asylum last year in Europe, with more than a million refugees arriving in 2015, around half from Syria.

• Germany has received almost 600,000 refugees in 2015 and more arriving each day.
• Hungary has taken 178,000.
• Greece is sheltering at least 65,000 with thousands more arriving on the Islands each week
• More than 3,770 people drowned last year in the Mediterranean trying to find safety.

Wales has pledged to take 1,500 Syrian refugees in the next few years but only a handful have arrived.
Ceredigion has the capacity to take at least 50 refugees EACH YEAR until 2020.

Wales - and Ceredigion- needs to do its bit!

How it will be delivered

In person

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