Our Arty Refugee for Jan-have a look

Ciao beautiful people,??

Hope you had a good break.?Here our usual newsletter platform shutdown, so we have to skip last month - apologies for this.?We know you look forward to our monthly updates?????

Back to the new year and what awaits us.?How are your new years resolutions coming along??90% of new years resolutions do not last the first 3 months!?The single biggest cause is how you go about it - apparently???.??

Make your life simpler tip?

Research suggests if you set yourself a?goal you make life difficult for yourself.??So ...?what's the answer??Build a set of habits to complement your ambition.?This way you work on the root cause of your issue with more reliable results.?

Talking about??replacing new better habits with older ones - how is your eco fashion commitment coming along??Feel free to share your commitments with us on Twitter??@arts4refugees??- first 10 by mid Feb?get a 30% discount from our?shop.??

Innovation for?you?in the pipeline?

So, who is our refugee of the month??Actually, before we go there we have an amazing announcement to make.?We are working with?Code Brave?to gamify these quizzes.?This means you can play them whenever you feel like it.?Just to let you know Code Brave are helping the post conflict community of Lebanon build their next generation of techies.?So watch this space for the game.?

Arty Refugee?Tips

Finally, our arty refugee for the month.??3 facts to help you guess -?

• Noble Prize for literature winner for 1970
• Author of??Gulag Archipelago
• The First Circle was made into a 10 part film by BBC.?

(If you need your cheat sheet - here is a?link?)

Before we tell you the person's name - here are a few updates.?

Volunteer Corner?

We are currently working with a student journalist team from?War Studies Department, King's College, London.?These students are researching and writing about post conflict communities in their spare time.??We will be sharing their work with you next month.?Be great to see what you think.?

We also have a new digital marketing volunteer -?? Chloé Testa-Carminati .?She just completed her Master's in Marketing and is now building her work experience with us.?

Refugee of the month - answer?

In case you did not get the name is?

Aleksandr?Solzhenitsyn?.??Here is?a short article?about him.?

Till next month?

Zufi, Michael, Gerry and a team of committed professionals.?