Charity Art Auction In aid of Q: Afghan Refugee
You can bid online via Zoom or join us at The Woodshed – please let us know if you’re coming!
Saturday 27th November 2021 at 2pm
Original artwork from local and international artists on sale: click here for the catalogue!
Zoom link – just click to join the auction!!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86215284884?pwd=ZFE1bFltaVRJOTFEcFRaM3VIcXNKdz09
Meeting ID: 862 1528 4884 Passcode: 687694
This auction is to support Louise O’Connell in raising funds so that a young family of Afghan brothers can continue their education and their lives together
Q has been in the UK as a refugee for approximately ten years and has indefinite legal leave to remain here. He is a young man who fled to the UK as a child escaping the Taliban who had taken him to a training camp. The Taliban had already killed his father and later killed his mother after he left Afghanistan.
This left Q and his two younger brothers orphaned with no other family members and no financial support as his mother had sold the family land to pay for his safe passage to UK.
Q has worked hard since the age of 14/ 15 when he first arrived but has not been able to save enough for the legal process which will allow him to be reunited with his brothers. Over the last five years Louise has been supporting him with finding /locating his brothers and then with seeking legal representation for the reunification process.
Fundraising will help reunite Q with his younger brothers which will involve legal costs for applications to the home office for each brother. He then has to prove he can financially look after his brothers with a set income, DNA tests and secure a property with at least two bedrooms. He currently lives in a one-bedroom flat. He has survived much trauma and is a caring, compassionate hard working young man of 24 who desperately wants to ensure the safety and safe care of his younger brothers who are at risk of being killed by the Taliban if found.
Please support this auction to raise further funds towards this humanitarian cause.
Follow this link if you would like to donate directly on Louise’s GoFundMe page
This one-day charity auction is being organised by The School Bus Project which is a registered charity no. 1166972 and is being hosted by The Woodshed Gallery, Bail Steps, Folkestone, CT20 1AS
