Action Asylum volunteers from Portsmouth City of Sanctuary participate in projects throughout the year that promotes community cohesion, engagement and celebrates the diversity of Portsmouth. This initiative encourages local asylum seekers to volunteer with local organisations, help out at allotments, food banks or other community groups and participate in many projects that help to promote the integration of refugees and asylum seekers locally.
Action Asylum was very keen to get out and about and support local projects where they could, so Wilder Portsmouth linked the volunteers with one of our local schools; where the volunteers will help maintain the wild areas developed at the school as well as help build a pond area.
Beddow library is another area in the city that had approached me about creating a wild flower area adjacent to the library for their users to enjoy and connect with nature. By engaging the Asylum seekers with this project we were able to clear the area and prepare for additional wildflower planting create a pathway and we also built a large bug hotel and put up a bird box, again this is a project that the volunteers have committed to maintaining long term.
