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14 mai 2011

An award fo Marie Louise Mbondo

An award fo Marie Louise Mbondo
Our wonderful volunteer Jean Murat has spotted news of an old friend of the Centre - Marie Louise Mbondo. Marie Louise, a receptionist in the audiology department of St Mary's Hospital, London, won an award at Imperial College Healthcare's prestigious...
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3 septembre 2009

Back to work! C'est la rentrée!

Back to work! C'est la rentrée!
After 2 weeks of the Centre having to be shut due to a lack of volunteers, it was back to business today! Albertine and Jean at the reception desk Julienne and Karamba at the café Jean working on the newsletter Christiane, Jean, Hélène and Karamba Over...
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Tags: news

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5 octobre 2009

REMINDER: PIAF, JAZZ & MORE!

REMINDER: PIAF, JAZZ & MORE!
Our big charity benefit event "Piaf, Jazz & More!" featuring Lynn Holland and a set of other performers will be taking place on Saturday 17th October at 2.30pm and 7pm at the Leicester Square Theatre. To book, please click HERE . Ticket prices from £10...
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18 octobre 2009

Congratulations Yvonne! Félicitations Yvonne!

Congratulations Yvonne! Félicitations Yvonne!
Yvonne has been volunteering with Notre Dame Refugee Centre for a very long time. Together with her husband Michel, she was recently awarded with the "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" medal, which is the highest medal that can be awarded to the laity by the...
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14 juin 2010

Celebrating Sanctuary festival 2.

Celebrating Sanctuary festival 2.
Here's a few pics of our stall at the Celebrating Sanctuary Festival yesterday. Some of our clients came to help out on the stall too. It was a lovely event, great atmosphere, lovely people and we raised a little bit of money for the Centre! Photos by...
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17 septembre 2010

Stories from the Drop-in

Stories from the Drop-in
Everyone in the Drop-in Cafe has a story to tell. Here Azumati Kiboko talks about the meaning of his name - literally 'Ambassador of the hippopotami'... I come from an ethnic group called Balengola. This ethnic group is found in the east of the DRC, about...
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14 août 2009

A date for your diary. A vos agendas.

A date for your diary. A vos agendas.
COMING SOON ON 17TH OCTOBER: "PIAF, JAZZ AND MORE" Our big charity benefit event "Piaf, Jazz and More", featuring Lynn Holland and a set of other performers will be taking place on Saturday 17th October at 2.30pm and 7pm at the Leicester Square Theatre....
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24 janvier 2011

Alterations, alterations

Alterations, alterations
We are starting the New Year with a brand new idea – Soizic Quentin de Coupigny, as keen supporters will know, has been running a sewing group at NDRC for some time with Eleanore Mensah. It has - over the past few months - fallen slightly into abeyance...
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25 octobre 2010

More stories from the Centre. Part 2

More stories from the Centre. Part 2
This week we're showcasing photos taken by Marie Louise Mbuyi, who arrived in the UK ten years ago. Marie Louise is keen to develop her passion for gardening and acquire new skills, so has been learning Floristry at Heston College. Marie Louise created...
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17 mai 2011

High spirits on the sponsored walk...

High spirits on the sponsored walk...
A team of us from NDRC walked ten kilometres last night - completing the 7th London Legal Sponsored Walk to raise money for our advice services. The result so far: more than £3,000 of sponsorship. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to such...
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6 décembre 2010

Launching our Christmas Appeal

Launching our Christmas Appeal
We launched our Christmas appeal at Brian's talk last week - but for those who missed it, here is a glimpse of the style and spirit of it.... And as the flyer says ....our doors are open to all asylum seekers and refugees. Our Centre is often the only...
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25 mai 2011

An award for Karamba

An award for Karamba
Karamba, who volunteers every week in the Drop-In Cafe, was looking extremely smart on Monday and had brought in a very impressive certificate. He's worked over the years with Ruth and Fiona, our ESOL (English as a second language) co-ordinators here,...
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8 novembre 2010

Stories from the Centre. Part 4. End of series

Stories from the Centre. Part 4. End of series
This week is the last of our series. It's Charlie Mabuila's turn. Charlie has been in the UK for 12 years. He loves gardening, but most of it all he loves having his picture taken. When we lent one of our cameras to Charlie he immediately started asking...
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5 novembre 2009

Goodbye Julie!

Goodbye Julie!
After 6 months at Notre Dame Refugee Centre, our interim director Julie left us last week! Amongst other things, Julie put in place regular review meetings with the advice workers, worked on and published the annual review, and played a big part in organising...
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26 novembre 2009

Goodbye Jean! Welcome Helen!

Goodbye Jean! Welcome Helen!
We bid an emotional farewell to Jean, our Drop in Centre Coordinator of 2 years, today. We waved him off with some African food and lots of cakes; 2 beautiful shirts hand made for him by Eleonore and Joséphine, one of our visitors; some happy songs in...
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29 mars 2010

Brian to visit Congo.

Brian to visit Congo.
Here's an article about one of our senior advice workers, Brian Mitchell, who has been awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship and so will be travelling to Congo at the end of the year to gain a better understanding of the situation...
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1 novembre 2010

Stories from the Centre. Part 3

Stories from the Centre. Part 3
This week it's Ginette Masuaku's turn to take centre stage. She is one of four visitors who have been taking photographs of their lives in a new photography project with our volunteer, Monica Alcazar. She arrived in the UK a year and a half ago. One of...
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12 mai 2011

London Legal Sponsored Walk

London Legal Sponsored Walk
The date is fast approaching: on Monday 16th May, a team from NDRC will be walking the 10 km route, along with 5,000 other walkers all raising funds for much needed legal advice. Please consider sponsoring us - it's quick and easy on this web page. Encouragement...
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23 février 2010

Coming up in March! A venir en mars!

Quelques uns de nos clients se sont récemment vus attribuer un statut permanent par UKBA sous le programme ‘legacy’. Alors que ceci améliore énormément leurs droits à long terme, il y a une période de transition initiale avec beaucoup de changements auxquels...
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Tags: gardening,  cooking,  advice,  information,  training

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18 août 2009

Karamba's English studies. Les études d'anglais de Karamba.

Here's an article written in English by Karamba, one of our visitors at NDRC. Thank you Karamba and well done! KARAMBA’S ENGLISH STUDIES Karamba is an Asylum Seeker who arrived in UK from RDC (Republic Democratic of Congo) in 2007. When he arrived, despite...
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Tags: English,  anglais,  course,  experience

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21 mai 2010

Dates and news.

We have recently received £5,000 from the London Cycling Campaign to run a "build-a-bike" project . This is a very exciting project and participants will receive training in how to build a bike which they can then take away for free along with bike locks...
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Tags: workshop,  training,  art,  bikeworks

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9 septembre 2009

Still human, still here

I mentioned the STILL HUMAN, STILL HERE photo exhibition last month and I went to see it today. The pictures are very moving, even more so when you know the people in them (but the exhibition is actually quite small, so I would only recommend you go if...
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4 février 2010

Drama workshops. Ateliers théâtre.

Come and share your stories!! DRC playwright Frederick "Fred" Kambemba Yamusangie will be running drama workshops at the Centre. He will come in on Mondays 1-3pm to talk to anyone who would like to take part. Fred will listen to your stories. They can...
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Tags: workshop,  stories,  theatre

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8 mars 2010

Don't miss! A ne pas manquer!

We will be sharing some of the stories collected during our drama workshops on MONDAY 29TH MARCH at The Soho Theatre near the Centre. We will leave the Centre at 1pm and be back just after 2pm. Everyone welcome so please come and bring your friends! If...
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Tags: workshop,  stories,  theatre

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23 octobre 2009

Voucher exchange scheme

To all on SECTION 4 Support who exchange vouchers at NDRC, please read the letter below about forthcoming changes. You may already be aware that the government is changing the way it operates section 4 support from NASS (support currently given via supermarket...
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