Croeso Menai

CROESO MENAI - welcoming a refugee family through community sponsorship
CROESO MENAI - croesawu teulu o ffoaduriaid trwy nawdd cymunedol
Charity Reg. No.1186363

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Yn 2018 Croeso Menai oedd y grŵp Nawdd Cymunedol cyntaf yng Ngogledd Cymru. Yn Chwefror 2021 wedi tair blynedd o waith caled ac er gwaethaf yr heriau a gafwyd oherwydd Covid, bu modd inni groesawu teulu o Syria ac erbyn hyn maent wedi setlo’n dda iawn yn ein cymuned. Oherwydd y fath ymateb cadarnhaol a gafwyd gan bobl leol cawsom ein hysbrydoli i fwrw iddi i ddod ag ail deulu yma i ddechrau bywyd newydd. O ble bynnag y dônt, yr un ydy’r angen i sicrhau lle diogel i fyw ynddo ac i adeiladu dyfodol iddynt hwy a’u plant. Erbyn hyn ffurfiwyd ail dîm sy’n cael ei fentora gan aelodau’r tîm gwreiddiol. Mae gennym y fantais o ddysgu oddi wrth ein ‘Teulu Cyntaf’ o ran sut brofiad oedd o iddynt hwy. Gyda’ch anogaeth a’ch cefnogaeth chi, ein gobaith ydy y bydd teulu arall cyn bo hir yn canfod hafan ddiogel yn ein rhan ni o’r byd. Allwn ni ddod i siarad efo’ch mudiad? Byddem yn falch iawn o roi sgwrs ddwyieithog i roi mwy o wybodaeth i chi. Yn ôl aelodau Tîm 1: “dyma brofiad mwyaf dyrchafol a gwerth chweil fy mywyd” – roeddwn i wir eisiau gwneud mwy na rhoi a***n yn unig, bu’n brofiad gwych”. Ac yn ôl cymydog ein teulu cyntaf: “Ddylai neb fod yn amheus o gael Syriaid fel cymdogion – nhw ydy’r cymdogion gorau, mwyaf hyfryd a ges i erioed. Er mai ychydig iawn oedd ganddynt yn y wlad hon, roeddent yn dal i rannu bwyd efo ni. Rydwi’n hapus ac yn falch i’w galw nid yn unig yn gymdogion ond yn ffrindiau hefyd.”

Dywedodd ein ‘Teulu Cyntaf’:
“Rhoddodd pawb yn Croeso Menai hyder inni, a’r teimlad o ddiogelwch a heddwch meddwl yn ein bywyd yma. Gwnaethant inni deimlo ein bod yn perthyn yma a’n bod yn blant i’r wlad hon. Lle bynnag yr awn ni, gwelwn wên ar wynebau pobl. Mae pobl Prydain yn garedig, yn gyfeillgar ac yn ddiymhongar iawn. Aethom i’r Alban yn yr haf a chawsom amser ardderchog ond roeddem yn colli pawb yn Croeso Menai ac yn colli Cymru. Croeso Menai yw ein teulu ac rydym yn teimlo’n ddiogel wrth gael teulu mawr o’n cwmpas.”

Anfonwch eich cyfraniadau drwy BACS i Croeso Menai (NatWest), Cod Didoli – 51-61-28, Rhif Cyfrif – 77977629;
I gyfrannu £10, tecstiwch 70191 gyda'r gair CROESO3, cysylltwch drwy ebost: [email protected]
A fyddwch mor garedig â rhoi eich enw wrth y rhodd, a llenwi ffurflen cymorth rhodd, os nad yw’ch manylion gennym eisoes. Diolch yn fawr iawn am eich cefnogaeth, gan y tîm Croeso Menai

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CROESO MENAI - welcoming a refugee family through community sponsorship

In 2018 Croeso Menai became the first Community Sponsorship group in North Wales. In February 2021 after three years of hard work and despite the challenges presented by Covid-19, we welcomed a family from Syria and they are now settled very happily in our community. The wonderfully positive response from local people inspired us to start the ball rolling to bring a second family to make a new life here. We do not know where a family will originate from. Wherever they come from, their need to have a safe place to live and build a future for themselves and their children is the same. A new team has come together under the mentorship of original team members. We have the benefit of learning from our ‘First Family’ about how it was for them. We hope that, with your encouragement and support, it won’t be long before another family finds a peaceful sanctuary in our much-loved part of the world. We are required by the Home Office to raise a minimum of £9,000. This fund will go towards preparing and equipping a house for the family; providing language classes; interpreting and translation services; collecting them from the airport; clothes; toys; some spending money for when they first arrive etc. Can you, or your organisation, help us reach this goal by holding a quiz, sponsored event, cake sale, auction of promises? Or choosing Croeso Menai as your Charity of the Year? Every donation, whether big or small, will go a long way towards welcoming our second family. For a suggested subscription of £10 a year you can join Croeso Menai to keep up to date with all our activities. For more details, contact [email protected]. Could we come and speak to your organisation? We would be very pleased to present a bilingual talk to help you find out more. Members of Team 1 said “it was the most uplifting and rewarding experience of my life” – “I really wanted to do more than just give money, this has been wonderful”. And this from the neighbour of our first family: “No one should question having Syrians as neighbours – they are the best, most beautiful neighbours I’ve ever had. Even though they had very little in this country, they still shared food with us. I am very happy and proud to call them not only neighbours but also friends.”

Our ‘First Family’ said:
“Everyone in Croeso Menai reassured us, gave us all the feeling of safety and feel calm to live here. They helped us to feel we belong here and we are children of this country. Every time we go anywhere, we see smiles on people’s faces. British people are very kind, friendly and modest. We went to Scotland in the summer and had a great time, but we missed everyone in Croeso Menai and we missed Wales. We were really happy to come back home to Wales. We feel that Croeso Menai are our family and we feel the safety of having a big family around us.”

Please send donations by BACS to: Croeso Menai (NatWest), Sort Code - 51-61-28, Account Number - 77977629 ;
To donate £10 now, text 70191 with the word CROESO3. Contact us by email: [email protected]
If you are able to support us in any way please get in touch. If you make a donation, please reference your donation with your name and complete a gift aid form

Thank you so much for your support

From the Croeso Menai team