Refuweegee

Refuweegee is a community-led charity that gives people a way to welcome and embrace those newest to arrive. We strive to ensure that people who have been forced to flee their homes arrive in Scotland to a warm welcome and some of the things that will help people to feel more at home here. Refuweegee creates and delivers over 120 community built welcome packs each month for refugees arriving in Scotland. We make sure that each welcome pack contains useful items, like shampoo and toothpaste; Scottish items, like tea cakes, irn bru and shortbread; and the heart and soul of our welcome packs, #lettersfaethelocals – a personal welcome letter from someone who is a little more familiar with Scotland than the recipient. From welcome packs we have developed into community events, days out, buggy & pram donations and fortnightly free clothes pop-up events.