Ashburton Courier: June 18, 2020

Local news at www.starnews.co.nz Ashburton's The Courier, Thursday June 18, 2020, Page 7
Refugees in limbo; students send love
Netherby School students Anya
Walker and Isabella McCully put
their kind hearts and artistic talent to
good work to design the official
poster for World Refugee Day in
Ashburton.
The Ashburton District Council’s
Welcoming Communities
programme and Safer Mid
Canterbury’s Refugee Settlement
Support Service put the call out to
creative kids last month and
Netherby School rose to the
challenge.
Anya and Isabella, both age 9, won
for their joint poster while classmate
Ryleigh Martin, 10, was runner­up.
Emily Hodzelmans, 10, of
Hampstead was also runner­up.
The winning posters were chosen
by deputy mayor Liz McMillan and
have been used as the base design for
big posters that will appear around
the district to mark World Refugee
Day on Saturday.
The winning artists received a$100
Warehouse voucher and the runnersup
$30 vouchers each.
Ms McMillan said she chose Anya
and Isabella’s poster from the 41
entered because it showed several
prominent town features, including
the town clock and an eye­catching
road sign. It was adifficult choosing
awinner from so many good posters.
Ashburton is still awaiting word on
the arrival of refugees who will make
anew home here.
Refugee settlement support team
leader Kathy Harrington­Watt said it
was likely they would come from
refugee camps in Malaysia or
Pakistan but Covid­19 meant
transport routes and borders had
closed to many. ‘‘They are in limbo.’’
Ashburton was still expecting
refugees and the resettlement service
was ready to go once they received
word about when they would arrive.
She told Netherby School students
that the newcomers needed asafe
home and Ashburton could help
them.
‘‘Our responsibility as a
community is to make them feel
welcome, to become friends, to make
them feel happy.’’
World Refugee Day was achance
to think about refugees and their
situations.
She said children would be the
most welcoming to Ashburton’s
refugees when they arrived.
Above: Children’s librarian
Jonathan Nixon (back left),
Welcoming Communities adviser
Janice McKay and refugee
settlement support team leader
Kathy Harrington-Watt with winning
artists (front, from left) Ryleigh
Martin, Anya Walker and Isabella
McCully.
Right: The winning poster by Anya
Walker and Isabella McCully.
Left: Deputy mayor Liz McMillan
with some of the World Refugee Day
posters, that are on display in the
Ashburton Children’s Library.
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