Want to help refugees - but not sure how? I found a surprisingly simple answer

An anti-racism protest in Rotherham on 4 August. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

I wish refugees didn’t exist. Of course I do. I wish war, persecution, violence and discrimination didn’t exist, too.

But people have been fleeing the lands in which they were born for centuries – make that millennia – precisely because of war, persecution, violence and discrimination. It is as innate a part of the human story as giving birth, eating food and losing our teeth.