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We will create a giant Choose Love mural on Hanbury street. A powerful and positive message for Refugee Week located in the heart of Tower Hamlets.
Iranian artist and refugee, Majid Adin, will paint a giant, colourful Choose Love mural on Hanbury street to create a powerful, unifying message for Refugee Week in the heart of Tower Hamlets. Help Refugees is a grassroots humanitarian movement. We fund over 80 projects across Europe and the Middle East. Our message to the world is Choose Love. This will be the central theme of the piece. Majid is one of Help Refugees' ambassadors. An incredibly talented artist, he won a competition to create the official music video for Elton John's Rocketman. We believe in celebrating our shared humanity in creative, positive ways to foster acceptance, integration and community. With this project we will do just this, working with children from local schools as well as local refugees and asylum seekers.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
This mural is a powerful and positive message that is unpolitical but bold. We all have a choice. To be motivated by fear and animosity, to build walls and turn our backs on the world. Or to nurture the hopeful; to recognise our common future. To choose love. The world can feel broken, but everywhere these cracks are letting in light. Help Refugees #ChooseLove campaign has captured global attention online. Help Refugees and Second Home will also be reaching out to the local Tower Hamlets community to come help Majid by helping create the mural. This includes refugees, school children and local migrants. We need your support to bring this mural to life. Pledge what you can and help spread the Choose Love message to the many residents, workers and tourists passing Hanbury St every day!
Steps to get it done:
Our previous Choose Love campaigns include the Choose Love shop, where shoppers bought real products for refugees - nappies, fresh fruit and veg, blankets and more - which we then purchased in the ten countries where we work. We raised over £1 million in a month. Next we launched a restaurant with Syrian chef Imad Alarnab where £15 from every ticket goes towards the running costs of the only paediatric hospital in the Aleppo region. These campaigns have had a media reach of hundreds of millions. We already have interest from viral video channels about this project. We met Majid when he was living in the camp in Calais. This project forms part of Second Home's Refugee Week activity. We moved into Second Home a year ago and they have shared our campaigns, hosted fundraisers and provided volunteers. They currently run Libreria Language Labs in collaboration with ELATT, drop-in sessions to help the migrant community of Tower Hamlets improve their English reading and writing skills.
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Location Tower Hamlets
About the space
Hanbury Street is located off the historic Brick Lane where successive waves of immigrants settled in the area. Hanbury Street is famous for the street art bringing lots of tourists down each year.
Council
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Together we reached our target!! All thanks to every single one of your generous donations. Thank you so so much to everyone who has pledged and made this possible. We will start painting on Sunday!! Special thanks to the Second Home Community for going above and beyond always and to Spacehive for the incredible support. If you want to help painting email philli@helprefugees.org. You're all amazing. Have a great weekend! Xxx
Whoop, 50 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Whoop, 50 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Whoop, 40 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Woohoooo! We've raised £1000 :-) thank you for your pledges. Please do share the page with anyone you know who might like to help! For anyone who doesn't already know Majid, the brilliant artist who is creating the mural please check out his for Elton John's Rocketman - he won a global competition to create the official music video for the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVBCG6ThDk Enjoy the Bank Holiday everyone xxx
How will the money be spent?Total £4,975
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Total £4,975
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VolunteerHelp Refugees is a grassroot charity that provide aid and advocate for refugees. They support over 80 projects worldwide with food, clothing, shelter, funding or more. Help Refugees are dedicated to raising awareness and empathy towards refugees globally and have used the #chooselove campaign
We are working with Second Home, where our office is located. It is a members workspace and cultural venue that supports creatvity and entrepreneurship. Our cultural programme brings in artists, thinkers and entrepreneurs in order to discover new ideas and promote creativity.
Over 18-22nd June, on 20th anniversary of Refugee Week, Second Home is looking to celebrate the creative responses to the refugee crisis in collaboration with members Help Refugees with a rich programme of events, activites and talks.
Second Home is dedicated to supporting the local community through iniatives, workshops and activities that improve the reading, writing and speaking skills of local Tower Hamlets migrants and refugees as well as ways to help them get back into work with partners.
This Choose Love mural will be a focal point of this Refugee Week celebration and a statement to demonstrate Second Home's commitment to promoting a positive message that promotes community cohesion in our local area.
Project Owner: Help Refugees The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
