The Lauda Project is a community outreach based out of St. Dunstan’s Parish Church on Earle Road in L7 (Part of The Team Parish of St. Luke in the City and in partnership with Liverpool Parish Church). We have a special focus on helping to build bridges between our local Romanian Roma community, the Church and the wider community of Toxteth, Edge Hill and Wavertree.
We are connecting Romanian Roma families to the wider community through our Wednesday morning community support hub which runs in partnership with Micah Community Market, Granby Toxteth Development Trust and MerseyCare’s Life Rooms. Families and individuals can join us each week for a hot drink, toast and a chat, pick up a bag of food items, get clothes and other household items, learn English or Romanian, and speak to MerseyCare staff about any needs or issues they are facing. There are many opportunities to help facilitate these brilliant services and build relationships with those who come through our doors.
We are running an after-school club once a week on Thursdays during term time at St. Hugh’s Catholic Primary School to do this where 60% of the pupils are from Roma families. We spend our time together playing, creating and learning about God’s love and purpose for life. It is an amazing opportunity to build relationships with the families and have a positive influence in the lives of the children. It’s also a lot of fun!
The Lauda Project is sustained by our amazing volunteers, many of them coming from the Tsedaqah community in Liverpool, from Youth With A Mission Liverpool, from our local churches and also from the Roma community themselves. We could not carry out this work without these amazing people and it is a blessings to see so many people from very many different backgrounds all working together to lift one another up and see our Roma friends welcomed, embraced and empowered to live beautiful lives here in Liverpool and beyond.
