It could so easily have been us
Sarah E. Hagger-Holt (CAFOD Campaigns Team): “My mother’s family were Eastern European Jews. They moved to the UK in the 1900s, decades before the Nazis wiped out most of Europe’s Jewish community. This meant that, unlike so many Jewish families, none of our family died in the Holocaust or had to beg for asylum as refugees in neighbouring safe countries. Yet, while rarely speaking of it, my mother always communicated a strong feeling to me that it could so easily have been us.
She would always stand up for refugees and oppressed people, wherever they came from, when she heard people casually stereotyping asylum seekers. Her interest in politics fostered mine. Her understanding that you couldn’t keep quiet if you felt strongly about something encouraged me to speak out.”
As we mark our 50th anniversary at CAFOD, it is time to reflect. We are asking all staff, volunteers, supporters and other friends of CAFOD to look back over their lives and recall the moment when they were first drawn into the fight against poverty and injustice. http://www.cafod.org.uk/whatlityourflame
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