Although refugee week officially ended today, there’s still more you can do to show support for the campaign and those in your community. Little L and I spent the week completing Simple Acts, which were not only informative but fun family activities:

- Monday, I posted my report about the Refugee Week event I visited here on the blog. I met so many interesting people, refugees and those who volunteer to support them.

- Tuesday I added a fact about refugees to my home e-mail signature. Did you know Did you know that Michael Marks from Marks & Spencer’s was a refugee?

- Wednesday we cooked a dish from another country. Actually, as I was time poor after coming home from a long day at work, I made a salad with ingredients from various continents; quinoa, wild rice, chick peas, spices.

- Thursday we drew a poster, ‘Refugees are welcome here’ and themed it around the city. Little L had her crayons, I had my oil pastels and we designed a multi-coloured poster to represent the diversity refugees bring to communities. I took at picture of Lexie and submitted it to the

- Friday, I read Little L a story from another country which I found on the Simple Acts website.

- Saturday and Sunday, we smiled. You can’t tell from looking at people who refugees are and those who may feel like outsiders in the city. I spend so much time rushing around these days, I tend to walk around with a frown on my face. So I decided to make an effort to smile at everyone. I’m sure people thought I was nuts but I had nothing to lose, you never know who that smile may impact.

It’s not too late to complete a Simple Act, even though the week is over. The campaign’s target is to post 20,000 Simple Acts and at the time of writing this, 14, 328 have been shared. So why not help them get to their goal while having fun and learning something at the same time.

http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/simple-acts/twenty-acts