This image, from a video taken on August 19, shows a baby being lifted across a wall at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan by US soldiers, amid the chaos of those fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country. (Omar Haidari via AP).
Often the news is painful to read, listen to or watch. Since the reoccupation of Afghanistan by the Taliban the desperate images of our terrified fellow beings - so terrified that some clung to a plane in a doomed attempt not to be abandoned - make me ask myself `What can I do?`.
If there are others asking themselves that, the York City of Sanctuary - the charity working for those who have had to make the shattering decision to leave all behind them - can be contacted on Facebook at ‘York City of Sanctuary’, or else on Twitter at @SanctuaryYork.
Rose Berl, De Little Court, Vine Street, York
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