Readers have been incredibly generous. Our 2016 charities – Help Refugees, Safe Passage, and The Children’s Society – explain how they will use your donations * Readers’ £1.8m for refugees is beacon of humanity in climate of hostility “We’ve just returned from Greece where refugee children are living in camps with temperatures as low as -13. Grassroots organisations funded by Help Refugees were again providing the emergency response keeping people safe and warm. We saw volunteers working in terrible conditions to provide emergency food, winter clothes, heating, fuel, drinking water. They helped relocate vulnerable families to safer accommodation. Continue reading...