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Learning the value of collaboration

student with practice educator
Photo: Clara (right) with her Practice Educator, Emma Watt.

This World Social Day 2022, we share the words of Clara Fong, final year Master of Social Work student at University of Edinburgh, currently on her final placement, at MCFB.

A Butcher, a Baker... not quite

a technology workshop in progress

Actually, an Architect, a Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer and a Barber. It hasn't quite got the same ring to it but this was some of the former and much missed, occupations of those in attendance at our recent Men's Group as part of MCFB's Safe Haven Project for Syrian Refugees.

Getting back in the driving seat

person of colour holding car steering wheel

[This blog was written by one of the men that attends our weekly men’s well-being group for refugee men who have been resettled in Edinburgh.

Ubuntu - I am because we are

ubuntu image for world social work day 2021
Title image credit - www.ifsw.org

January blues

painting of Cherry tree with swing
Painting and words by MCFB service user. Funding for art materials supplied by Foundation Scotland

I am writing this on ‘Blue Monday’ – apparently the most depressing day of the year, supposedly based on factors including the weather, post-Christmas debt, the long haul to next Christmas and the fallout of new year’s resolutions.  Add in the pandemic and surely we have moved further down the Covid-inspired rainbow into a darker shade of indigo.