Our friends at Massive Outpouring of Love (MOOL), a community group supporting new Scots in Dumfries and Galloway, are undertaking a project researching the importance of displaced people in influencing Scottish history and culture.
Can you help? Volunteer Coordinator Jay explains more:
“MOOL is a Dumfries-based charity set up to help displaced people everywhere. We are starting a project which is intended to highlight the importance to Scottish history, culture and life of the people who made their home here after being forced to leave their homelands.
“We want to create an archive detailing the lives and contributions of displaced people who became Scots from early saints to the modern day.
“We are looking for researchers who might be able to dig out information on such lives and write brief biographies (~2 A4 sides) on one or two people. Ideally, we’d love to get images or even movies where possible as well.”
How to get involved:
Research: If you think you’d like to be involved as a volunteer researcher please email Jay: jrubinstein@mool.scot. He has a few volunteers already allocated to names and would like to avoid duplicated efforts.
Suggestions: If you cannot get involved as a researcher, but you know of a historical figure who MOOL should be researching, please contact Jay: jrubinstein@mool.scot.
Massive Outpouring of Love (MOOL) was founded in September 2015 as a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, and gained SCIO status in February 2016.
