Pulling Together Asian Women's Group

When Pulling Together applied to Comic Relief for this funding, Corona Virus was something that no one had heard of. By the time the funding was awarded Corona Virus had changed all our lives, because of this the final project that we will create will be centered around Corona Virus and the changes it has caused.

This week we held our first Zoom session on our latest project A-Z of Mental Health and Wellbeing. After a few technical hiccups it was great to see all our group together even if it is online. During the session we managed to work out  some ofwhat we wanted for each of the letters. No points for guessing what we picked for C and V.

Since the lock down in March, Pulling Together have been holding small online sessions on WhatsApp video calling but this has meant that only four people could participate at one time. So to co-ordinate with the start of our A-Z of Mental Health and Wellbeing we will now meet on Zoom each Friday evening.

This week at Pulling Together we hosted a Chai and Chit Chat event for the  Worshipful Mayor of Trafford to help raise funds for his charities. Over £120 were raised and Pulling Together would like to thank everyone who attended and kindly donated to the charity.

The evening also saw the launch of our latest comicstrip “What is Hatecrime?”. Thank you to Trafford Partnership for funding this project.A pdf version of the comic can be found here.What is Hate crime? .

 

This week at Pulling Together we continued with our “What is Hate Crime?” comicstrip. Using stories decided by the group and Pixton software we have been able to produce professional looking comics.

This week at Pulling Together saw the end of of our A-Z of Faiths and Festivals project. Members of the community came along to see the finished tapestry and scrapbook that goes along side the tapestry. Those who worked on the project and those who came for the evening all agreed it was a very informative and helped us understand the faiths of people who we live alongside in the community. Pulling Together would like to thank The Community Fund for their continued support.

This week the group met in the kitchen at Limelight and made food that we all eat during festivals. Each member decided to make their own family’s special recipe foods and it was wonderful to be able to try new foods.

This week the group went out on day trip to York. Luckily the weather was much better than our last trip out to Edinburgh.  We caught the morning train and got into York and this was the first trip to York for many of the members. After a short walk around the city, we all went on a boat tour and saw the city from the River Ouse , this  included a wonderful commentary about the history of York. Later in the day the group went to York Minster and a smaller local church as part of our current project.

This week we continued designing and preparing our tapestry.

This week at Pulling Together the group made planters for their gardens in anticipation of Ramadan and End ul Fitr. The group wanted to make sure that their gardens/yards were looking as bright as possible with the spring/summer plants.

This week at Pulling Together saw us start our latest project A-Z of Faiths and Festivals. In the first session we all took a quiz to test our knowledge of some of the main religions and we started to work on our A-Z list.