Our Community, Our Home

What does it mean to speak of home? Home is often imagined as a place of origin, a landscape of familiarity that promises permanence. Yet for those whose lives unfold through migration and diaspora, home reveals itself differently. It is perhaps the one place that can only be recognised in its absence. While we inhabit it, home remains almost intangible and dimensionless. It enters thought through departure, through distance, through the quiet realisation that return… Continue reading Our Community, Our Home

Blina Shama UK: Creating a Sanctuary after Home Loss

The name Blin refers to the language and ethnicity of a minority group in Eritrea, and shama, a Blin term, literally translates to ‘shelter’. Blina Shama UK, therefore, was formed …