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Nibweb member Cath Senker<\/a> is this year\u2019s winner of the ALCS Educational Writers\u2019 award<\/strong> \u2013 for her book on\u00a0refugees: \u00a0Far From Home<\/em>, published by Franklin Watts.<\/strong><\/p>\n She was given the award by on the evening of Tuesday, 4 December, at the All Party Writers\u2019 Group (APWG) Winter Reception, where she\u00a0\u00a0took the opportunity to express her gratitude to Franklin Watts<\/a>\u00a0and her editor, Amy Pimperton, for commissioning the book at the height of the Middle East refugee crisis.<\/p>\n She received the ward on a rather extraordinary evening, when the government was in the process of being defeated no less than three times.\u00a0MP Tom Watson, who was awarding the prize, had to\u00a0break off in the middle \u00a0to go and vote:\u00a0the division bell was ringing almost constantly.<\/p>\n Cath says, \u2018I couldn\u2019t have written the book without the refugees and volunteers who shared their stories. I wanted to give refugees a voice in the book so that readers could learn what it\u2019s like having to flee your home, leaving everything behind to embark on a long, difficult, dangerous journey to an unknown destination. How does it feel to arrive in a new country and how do local people respond to refugees? I was also determined to present the issues in a non-judgemental way so that children could discuss them and make up their own minds.\u2019<\/p>\n She plans to share the prize money among refugee organisations that helped her\u00a0to write the book.<\/p>\n Far From Home<\/em> by Cath Senker: published by Franklin Watts,\u00a0ISBN:<\/strong>\u00a09781445155203<\/p>\n And another winner …<\/strong><\/p>\n
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