Keep our refugee women’s centre open - and win embroidery! Prize Draw.
Oshana is at risk — and we need your help. International cuts to refugee funding have hit hard, and we must raise £8,000 to keep our doors open and continue empowering refugee women through craft and community.
Enter our special prize draw for a chance to win a stunning one-of-a-kind embroidery — and help us keep Oshana alive.
To ensure that 100% of the money from every sale goes directly to the refugee artisans who create our pieces, we rely on external funding to cover our centre’s rent and core costs. But with major international donors slashing budgets for organisations working with refugees, we now face a serious shortfall. We urgently need to raise £8,000 to keep our doors open.
To help bridge the gap, we’re launching a special prize draw featuring our most extraordinary embroidery yet — a one-of-a-kind framed piece, alongside other beautiful prizes.
The ‘Gates of Damascus’ is 55cm x 112cm and took one of our refugee artisans, Sawsan, more than three months to create. It is worth over a thousand pounds. Every millimetre is intricately covered by a design evoking the gates and doorways of old Damascus. Sawsan used thread to sign her piece in Arabic in the top corner, like the true artwork it is.
There are also runner-up prizes of some of our gorgeous cushions and clutches - all created by refugee women and keeping traditional craft alive.
Every entry gives you the chance to win — and helps us keep providing hope, dignity, and purpose to refugee women.
Oshana is just one of the projects of our parent charity Makani, that works with refugee women in the UK and Lebanon through arts and education. All of Makani’s programmes in Lebanon are threatened by this funding crisis. Watch the video below to hear directly from women whose lives have been changed.
