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The weather in South Wales doesn’t always help us with outdoor activities, but gardening is relaxing, productive and environmentally friendly, and it’s helped many new arrivals in Swansea to put down roots in more ways than one. Unity in Diversity trustee Hazle Boyles has led a series of gardening projects in the 2020s. Hazle helps UiD service users choose plants that she knows will survive and thrive in the local climate. The outcome has been season after season of beautifu

Unity in Diversity volunteers are our face and voice in the community. They champion our values. They encourage others to walk by our side and make Swansea’s asylum seekers and refugees feel welcome and valued in their new home. This Spring, we’re asking a team of UiD volunteers to go a step further. We’re asking them to be our Community Ambassadors. This is an exciting time for UiD. We’re launching a series of new projects, telling the world about them via our new website an

Learning a second language presents a challenge for anyone. That challenge is even greater for learners whose native alphabets bear no resemblance to the Roman alphabet. The Roman alphabet is the foundation of English, Welsh, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. But not Mandarin, Korean, Japanese or Arabic. Arabic speakers learning English must navigate not only a new alphabet but a writing system that needs to be read from right to left. Asylum seekers and refugees who make