Bekele Woyecha
@bekelewoyecha.bsky.social
Campaigns I Community Organising | Leadership Development I Social Justice | #GERD | #ኢትዮጵያ | #CoffeeLover I 🇪🇹🇬🇧
Courage is all around us. In the people rebuilding their lives. In the people who offer welcome. In the communities that come together and make room for one another. Watch, share, and tell us: what does courage mean to you? #refugeeweek #withrefugees #togetherwithrefugees #courage 🧡
Refugee Week is here🧡 This week is a reminder a more welcoming world isn’t just possible - people are already building it every single day. #refugeeweek #refugeeweek2026 #togetherwithrefugees
Volunteers like Ted make hope real. This week we’re celebrating the hopefuls, who will you celebrate? millionactsofhope.org #MillionActsofHope #TogetherWithRefugees
We Are All Pieces of the NACCOM Puzzle – 20 Years of a Hopeful Journey. So good to have joined @naccomnetwork.bsky.social as it celebrates it remarkable 20-year journey. Lots to reflect on following such a thoughtfully organised conference. #NACCOM20
An energising day in Westminster yesterday with many @churchillfship.bsky.social Fellows on how to understand & shape debates about migration+cohesion in volatile times: thanks @bekelewoyecha.bsky.social @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social @emilyagraham.bsky.social + Rosie Carter for insights + inspiration
It is compassion that is needed more – not a cruel asylum system! Earlier we delivered our letter to the Home Secretary asking for a more compassionate system where people seeking sanctuary are treated with dignity. It is time to rethink. Time to revisit our asylum system and put people first.
📢 Today over 200 community organisations have joined together to say the Government’s new asylum plans do not represent them, their communities or who we are as a country Want to join us? Write to your MP TODAY tinyurl.com/382ujcwn #TogetherWithRefugees
Destination: Security and belonging for refugees. Status: Cancelled Pin: Labour Party Conference, Liverpool
Torture is never justified. 40 years since Freedom from Torture was founded, torture still exists in many places around the world. Your support doesn’t just heal wounds – it rebuilds lives, restores hope, and help us move towards a future free from torture. Donate via the link today: bit.ly/45sX3Pk
Order your free Welcome posters! When we fill our windows, streets, and shared spaces with posters of welcome, we show our neighbours and MPs that kindness and solidarity are stronger than fear or division🧡 Get yours now👇 actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
The #WelcomeWeekend is only a few days away. Communities up and down the country are planning Welcome Weekend events to show solidarity and celebrate WELCOME. The event could be a summer picnic, a card making activity, a moment of reflection or a stall at a local market. Join the movement.
Torture is always wrong - No exceptions, no justifications. But around the world, governments continue using torture to silence people. This International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, survivors are speaking out: Read their stories now: www.freedomfromtorture.org/news-and-sto...
On this #WorldRefugeeDay and culmination of #RefugeeWeek2025, I join many others in calling for a system that's fair, kind & fit for purpose. Vital that we have a system that's more welcoming & effective to supporting refugees. Join hands with @refugeestogether.bsky.social and make a difference.
Some significant news from the ONS on sick day data this morning. There has been a large fall in total sick days taken by workers, but there is more to the story... a 🧵
Ready to supercharge your campaigning?⚡️ You are invited to join our brand new Campaign Organising Network - a network of local people committed to building power in their communities to campaign for a fairer & more just refugee system💪 Find out more & get involved actionnetwork.org/forms/join-o...
As we engage in Community Organising, we need to keep asking the below three questions, which Marshall Ganz challenges us to ask. 1. Who are my PEOPLE? 2. What is the CHANGE we need? 3. How can we turn our resources into the POWER? My piece on organising👇🏾 www.bekelewoyecha.com/2025/05/comm...
Community Organising as the work of Head, Heart and Hands!
By Bekele Woyecha
bekelewoyecha.com
As part of the @refugeestogether.bsky.social , the Campaign Organising Network is there to support local organisers, activists, campaigners & all those keen to engage in welcome. ‘May every community, every neighbourhood, everyone capable to welcome do so’ bekelewoyecha.medium.com/stories-matt...
Stories matter; Actions matter most!
May every community, every neighbourhood, everyone capable to help do so and change the lives of those stuck in the system.
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The Asylum Reform Initiative (ARI) @refugeestogether.bsky.social is hiring an Interim Director to lead the ARI team and oversee coordination of the Together With Refugees coalition during a crucial period, on a fixed term contract until December 2025. For more info and to apply: buff.ly/BB5edb6
However, it's disappointing to hear confirmation from the Government that some employees will receive a cut to their sick pay. Some of the lowest-income employees will be affected - many key workers that kept us safe during the pandemic.
Fantastic to be united with many workers & organisations calling for a rise in Statutory Sick Pay including @mindcharity.bsky.social, @mssocietyuk.bsky.social, Leukaemia Care, @cleanforgood.bsky.social, @organisehq.bsky.social, @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social 🙌 📸 Sylvie Pope Photography
Workers can’t get well soon without #SafeSickPay. Today our coalition gave the ‘Get workers well soon’ card & petition signed by thousands to Number 10 Downing Street & DWP HQ. To strengthen Statutory Sick Pay the Government must raise the rate & stop plans to reduce sick pay for 300,000 workers.
🚨 One third of a million employees - earning between £123 - £146 per week - are now at risk of having their sick pay reduced. Hear Amanda Walters, Director of the #SafeSickPay campaign, discuss on LBC radio why the Government must urgently change its wording in the Employment Rights Bill.👂⬇️
Was great to drop off our 'get workers well soon' card to @louisehaighmp.bsky.social last week. Thanks to the constituents who signed, with @sheffieldadvice.bsky.social and @tuc.org.uk Sheffield 🙏 Louise, please will you support raising the rate of Statutory Sick Pay in ERB Report Stage next week?
Lovely to meet Bekele, who is walking the streets of Brum today signing up supporters for the Safe Sick Pay campaign!
Statutory sick pay in the UK is one of the stingiest in Europe, at around £3 an hour. Today we're joining the Safe Sick Pay Coalition's day of action and telling the UK government what needs to change. Write to your MP using the template below 📝
The Centre for Progressive Change@progressivechange.bsky.social · last yr.📣 Today's our national day of action on #SafeSickPay! 📣 We're united with workers, health groups, charities and businesses across the UK urgently calling on the Government to raise Statutory #SickPay. ❗ We've only a few weeks until MPs debate Sick Pay. Write to them here: https://buff.ly/4hJQMTS
We loved meeting Rachel from @birminghammind.bsky.social today as part of the national day of action on #SafeSickPay 💙 Thanks Birmingham Mind for supporting the campaign to raise the rate of Statutory #SickPay, and signing our card to @liambyrnemp.bsky.social 🙌 @mindcharity.bsky.social
📣 Today's our national day of action on #SafeSickPay! 📣 We're united with workers, health groups, charities and businesses across the UK urgently calling on the Government to raise Statutory #SickPay. ❗ We've only a few weeks until MPs debate Sick Pay. Write to them here: https://buff.ly/4hJQMTS
