At the end of 2013 we established a business plan seeking to expand the work and add to the number of houses we run. We did sometimes wonder how we would manage it. However 2015 looks to be exciting! We have been given some money to enable us to rent a third house for a… Read More →

A few weeks ago, we interviewed RN. Neither of our interviewers had encountered anyone from his country of origin previously, Western Sahara. It’s a small country in North Africa bordered by Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. His English was virtually non-existent. We wondered how we would get through the interview. We discovered the two languages he… Read More →

Since Open Hands started, by September 2014 we have housed 47 people from 16 different countries. In the past few weeks we have housed men from two countries new to us. An older man, SK, from Albania was interviewed and offered accommodation. He only speaks Serbo-Croat and Albanian so an interpreter was required for the… Read More →