There has never been a more important time to help Syrian refugees in any way you can.
Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of our time.
Half the country’s pre-war population — more than 11 million people — have been killed or forced to flee their homes.
75% of Syrian refugees are women and children.
Fewer than 1% of Syria’s refugees will ever get a chance to be resettled overseas.
Five years after the civil war began, at least 250,000 people have died.
4 million refugees now live outside Syria and at least 8 million are displaced inside the country.
What will you say when one day you're asked, "What did you do for the refugees?"
Humanity’s Heart is here to witness and share the experiences of those people turning up and responding to the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II.
*Watch the full 'People Of Nowhere' film on your desktop - by kind permission of Lior Sperandeo
Weʼre raising £23,500 to Humanity's Heart Fund: supporting 9 charitable organisations helping refugees and towards 3 further films on the refugee crisis.
Screening of 'Humanity Rising in the Refugee Crisis' - May 2017
Humanity in the Refugee Crisis is a film looking at how humanity is responding to the crisis of our time.
On the ground -underneath the politics, media perceptions and procedures- we witness humanity alive as those escaping countries in conflict, journeying to safer shores are met by others journeying to help them.
Images of washed up refugees on the shores of Europe being met with the rise of xenophobia and racism across Europe and beyond, brought to heart many questions in 2016. All this coupled with the fear of terror spreading and rising Islamophobia, triggered a personal journey through refugee camps in Calais, Lebanon on Greece filmed in the summer of 2016 to go and learn first hand about the largest humanitarian crisis since WWII.
Questions such as:
1. Will my children grow up with images of washed up bodies onto the shores of Europe as a "new norm?"
2. Are all 20m+ displaced through wars, officially "refugees" or are they all "migrants", here to take our jobs and cripple our welfare state? are they all Islamic terrorists?
3. What are we humanity doing individually and collectively?
4. Why does it feel as if history is in repeat?
5. Fundamentally- why are we humanity allowing all this to happen?
Humanity's Heart brings you the lessons witnessed. Interviewing refugees, volunteers, academics, human rights experts and spiritual leaders, we learn how this crisis effects us all one way or another.
Our film details a journey to the heart of what makes us human, touchingly explored through the personal stories of refugees, volunteers, ordinary people, academics and spiritual leaders, capturing how the largest humanitarian crisis since WWII is effecting us all.
The event had panel discussions with interfaith leaders, charities and initiatives who are on the ground supporting those fleeing wars and repression and the voices of Syrians (refugees) who now live in the UK. They shared their own personal stories and the help they received along the way in the crisis of our time.
I help run a small charity called Elmbridge CAN which supports refugees in the local area. We set it up by accident, almost. A group of us who had connected on Facebook met up in a local pub in late 2015, wanting to do something about the horror stories we were hearing in the media about what people fleeing the war in Syria were having to go through.
You can get involved at a grass roots level, simply by watching our films and contacting the initiatives we promote directly.
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If you don't have any activities organised and are keen to help raise money or give physical help to Syrian refugees, check our Initiatives page to find one that fits your time and skills.
Anything you can do counts. Be that change.
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. ”
