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‘They have very much become part of the fabric of our community’

The Edinburgh residents taking an inspiring new approach to supporting refugees

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Sep 02, 2025
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In 2021, a family of six arrived in Edinburgh at the end of a long and life-changing journey.

The family were displaced from their home in Syria not long after the civil war began in 2011. They fled to Lebanon, though extreme poverty was widespread and the threat of conflict was constant. After waiting several years,…

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