Cornwall: a million stories of sanctuary

Videos, photos and updates from the Million Stories event at All Saints on March 11th 2016

This photographer traveled by raft with refugees headed to Europe

This photographer traveled by raft with refugees headed to Europe. The images he captured are a rare glimpse into the greatest refugee crisis since World War II.

Posted by Quartz on Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Refugee Aid - Working in Calais, France

An overview of the current conditions in Calais, some of the work Refugee Aid has been doing, and some of the projects we have supported.

Posted by Refugee Aid on Friday, 26 February 2016
YOU'RE THE VOICE - an anthem from women for climate action & hope

'You’re The Voice', our anthem from women for climate action and hope, celebrates the glorious power of women to be changemakers and leaders on climate action. Be inspired, sing with us and use your voice to share it widely! #IMTHEVOICE #IWD2016 #Pledgeforparity

Posted by 1 Million Women on Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The crisis unfolding across Europe, the Middle East and beyond is beyond comprehension, with suffering, desperation, fear and pain that we find it difficult to understand or know how to make right. But Cornwall has her roots deep in a history of providing a safe, warm hearth for strangers, friends and family alike, and for using her resilience and lion-heartedness to reach out and physically take sanctuary to those in great need in places far from here.  Her extraordinary response to this emerging crisis is a community at her best: ordinary people working with our Council to create a safe haven here for a few of the families in most need; but so many more of us up and down the county collecting everything from food, clothes, money, wetsuits, cooking equipment, to toothbrushes and sanitary items, and then physically driving them to people in such desperate need;  Cornish mums, dads, friends and teenagers are in fact now on the beaches lifting people out of the boats, caring for people on the ground, and feeding families with young children and grandparents together, on the troubled borders across Europe.

​This day was our first chance to see the astonishing breadth and extent of what Cornwall's communities are doing, understand more of this mind-churning crisis, and to help many who wanted to help but didn't know how.

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