In the last week of our appeal, readers explain why they pushed the total to more than £850,000Please donate to our appeal here‘This country welcomed me. Now it’s my turn to welcome others’: how readers were inspired to donateThe 2018 Guardian and Observer charity appeal has already raised more than £850,000 for five charities who helped bring the Windrush scandal to light. The charities provide legal assistance, advice, advocacy – and often welfare support – for migrants and UK citizens facing injustice, homelessness and destitution caused by “hostile environment” immigration policies. Many of the thousands of readers who made a donation online left a message explaining why they had been inspired to give. It could easily have been a member of my family: my mother, my aunts or my uncles that faced deportation.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2019 09:00 UTC