Language and law are tools of power.
Those who can speak and understand both can defend themselves and others.
Our exchange isn’t a “service.” It’s community resistance in practice — dismantling isolation, challenging the border logic that divides us, and creating a shared culture of care.
When you support the programme, you help build a future where refugees don’t need representation to be heard, because they already have the language and knowledge to advocate for themselves.
💷 Financial contributions
Every £5 buys ingredients for a shared meal.
Every £20 prints materials for an entire class.
Every £50 covers transport for a week.
Cook or contribute food
If you can provide ingredients or cook for a session, we’d love to have you join. Shared food builds shared power.
Our Language & Legal Literacy Exchange is a simple idea with radical intent:
we bring refugees, migrants, and local residents together to learn English and Arabic, build legal knowledge, and share a warm home-cooked meal.
No hierarchy, no saviourism - just people teaching, learning, and protecting each other.
But to keep the doors open, the lights on, and the meals cooking, we rely on community support.
When you contribute, you’re not “donating to refugees.”
You’re helping sustain a space of mutual learning and collective defence.
Your support helps us:
Provide food and ingredients for shared meals - ensuring everyone leaves nourished, no one excluded by hunger or cost.
Print learning and legal literacy materials in both English and Arabic.
Cover travel costs for refugee participants and volunteers.
Keep the sessions free and accessible for everyone.
Train facilitators to deliver trauma-informed, abolitionist learning spaces.
Every contribution - no matter the size - directly strengthens a living network of solidarity.
Share your skills
We’re always looking for Arabic and English speakers to co-facilitate, translate, or help with lesson prep.
Just turn up! Alternatively email, language.exchange@aladli.org
We’ll always stay independent.
We’ll never monetise our community or compromise our politics for funding.
Every penny goes directly into the work - the food, the learning, and the people who make it possible.
This is mutual aid, not charity.
If you believe in the power of food, language, and solidarity - help keep our space alive.
Come share a meal. Teach. Learn. Contribute.
Together, we build a community that no border or system can erase.