To all the people from overseas:

Dear all,

WelcomeHome Multi-language Support has been running for six months now. In this period we have successfully organised various kinds of workshops and events and gathered people from all over the world to join us. Our aim is to provide a warm, safe and homely feeling space for people from overseas. We sincerely hope all of our “family” members can feel supported by each other and enjoy every moment living in a foreign country.

Today after all the hard work we have finally launched our Inaugural newsletter. Please find it here. And please leave your comments and feedback, forward it to others and we promise we will make it better.

Here I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our “family members”. Thank you for joining WelcomeHome.nYour trust is the most important thing for us. At the same time, I really want to thank all of our team members, as without your encouragement and tireless work WelcomeHome would not have made it this far. I have to say I am really happy I have met all of you and I really appreciate having you as my team mates so that we can work together to make WelcomeHome grow faster. And last but not least I need to thank my tutors, classmates and friends who support me and encouraged me all the time. This is really important to me. I hope everyone can find a warm, comfortable and happy feeling in WelcomeHome’s family.

Although WelcomeHome is still young and there are still many things to be improved, I believe as long as we keep working, keep holing our belief about helping people from overseas find their happiness living in a foreign country, we will make it soon.

So welcome to join us and being one of our family members.

Kind regards,

Ziwei Wang

Founder of WelcomeHome Multi-language Support

致所有远离家乡的朋友们：

WelcomeHome从创办至今不到6个月的时间里组织了各项丰富多彩的活动，聚集了来自世界各地的朋友加入我们。我们的目标是为远离他乡来到英国的朋友们提供一个家一般温暖、舒适和安全的空间。在这个“家”里我们可以互相倾诉，互相扶持，让大家每天都有好心情。

在这里，我想特别感谢所有WelcomeHome的成员，是你们的鼓励与支持让WelcomeHome能够开办到今天，是你们的不断努力工作让WelcomeHome快速成长。我非常高兴能够遇到你们，并感谢你们愿意加入我们，为WelcomeHome献出自己的一份力量。同时我更要感谢所有“家庭成员”们和参加我们活动的老师们、同学们和朋友们，你们的宝贵意见和建议是我们成长的动力。希望你们能在WelcomeHome这个大家庭中找到一份温暖、舒适与安心，最重要的是一份快乐好心情。

今天，在WelcomeHome成员的共同努力下，我们终于推出了首期WelcomeHome周报。希望大家能积极阅读、积极反馈、广泛传阅。我们会持续改进，为大家推出更多丰富精彩的内容。

请大家关注我们的官方微博：welcomehomesupport

或访问官网：www.welcomehomeuk.com

此致

         敬礼

王子薇

"回家"多语言心理辅助中心 创始人

欢迎你们加入到我们这个大家庭中来！

About me

Hello everyone，I am the founder of WelcomeHome Multi-language Support. My name is Ziwei Wang and I come from Beijing China. I graduated from the University of Edinburgh last year with an MSc degree in Counselling Studies. As my great passion is psychology, I have always dreamt to have a counselling centre to help other people. So I am really happy to say that today I get closer to my dream. 

Aims and Origins
 
The reasons that I have created WelcomeHome are not only to fulfil my dream, but also from my experiences and talking with friends; I realise that as a foreigner in the UK our life, work or studies here are actually really tough and challenging. And I think we have more chance to encounter difficulties, be frustrated, to face pressures and challenges. In other words; we are more likely to be unhappy. However I found there is no specific organisation or group to help us. So, I created WelcomeHome, and I hope it can help many foreign people in the UK to deal with their mental health issues, negative emotions, or any relevant issues. 

And I hope we can provide you with a place where we can cross all the cultural and language barriers, a homely environment which can make you feel warm and supported. Whenever you feel depressed, sad, homesick…it can always be a place for you to go, where you can find a person ready to listen and friends to share problems with. This is the most important thing I think. 

Our services & Your gain

We have professional counsellors who come from different countries to provide mother tongue counselling services. So you can be truly understood. They will help you find your problems and lead you through them faster and better. Maybe you will not pay much attention to the small problems but a little unhappiness may result in irreparable situation. Only if you pass the negative feelings can you enjoy the new and beautiful world which you need to fight for rather than wait for. You will also be able to enjoy independence and freedom. 

Apart from counselling services, we will also invite experienced people to join our workshops to share their knowledge. I believe you will learn from it. At last, when you join us, you will be surrounded by family members who are just like you and you can support and be supported by each other.

Welcome home 

Finally, I have a long term aim which is I hope WelcomeHome can be an organisation which can represent the foreigners living in the UK, to fight for their rights and obligations. And help our group of people to gain more attention and recognition.

So If you are from overseas and living in the UK then join us, you are very welcome to be a member of our family. Let us work together to overcome all your difficulties and negative feelings and have a positive outlook and enjoy your work, study and life in the UK. 

Remember WelcomeHome. Thanks!

关于我：

 大家好， 我是Welcomehome Multi-language Support的创始人, 我叫王子薇，来自中国北京。 我是去年年底从爱丁堡大学毕业并取得了counselling studies的硕士学位。由于我一直对心理学有着非常浓厚的兴趣，所以一直以来都在学习相关的专业，并在相关的领域工作。 我一直以来的梦想就是能够建立自己的心理咨询中心来帮助更多的人。今天我很高兴，我又朝着自己的梦想迈进了一步。

由来与使命

当然我建立Welcomehome除了要圆自己多年以来的梦想之外，最主要的原因还是因为这段时间我自己的一些经历，和通过与一些朋友的讨论，我觉得作为一个在英国的外国人， 其实我们的生活，工作和学习是非常的来之不易的，是非常的艰难的。我们实际上有更容易遇到一些困难，一些挫折，会需要承受更多的压力和挑战。也就是说，我们更容易有一些不开心的时候。但是我没有找到一个专门的组织和机构来专门帮助我们这个群体。所以我建立Welcomehome，我希望我们这个组织能够专门帮助在英国的外国人，来处理大家所有的心理健康的问题，或者不开心的问题，或者你遇到的任何的相关的问题。

我希望WelcomeHome能给大家提供一个没有任何语言和文化障碍的一个空间，一个像家一样的环境，一个让你们觉得很温暖，和被支持的感觉。就是当你很难过，很沮丧，很想家的时候，可以让你有个地方可以去，有人可以说，有朋友可以分享。这是我觉得最重要的一点。

我们的支持&你的收获

 我们会提供专业的咨询师，我们的咨询师是来自世界各地。我们会为你提供母语咨询，做到真正地可以理解你，可以帮助你，并指引你看到自己的问题和困扰。也许你觉得这些没有什么，但是每天的闷闷不乐往往会导致一些很严重的后果。所以我们能帮助你看到这些问题，并能够尽快地，更好地走出这种不良适应，走出这种痛苦挣扎的过程。让你更早地进入到这种全新的世界，然后感受到这种新的生活。也许那个时候你就会觉得生活可以很美好，新的世界其实是你自己去争取的。然后你也会变得很享受，很享受这种自由和独立。

当然，除了咨询之外，我们还会请来一些有经验的嘉宾和老师给我们分享他们自己的经验。我觉得大家一定能从中学到你想要的东西。当然，当你加入到我们这个大家庭里的时候，我们的其他的家庭成员都会有和你相同和类似的经历，其实这本身就是一种互相扶持和帮助的过程，会让你觉得被包容，会让你觉得很舒服。


欢迎“回家”

 最后，我还有一个长远的目标我就是希望WelcomeHome可以成为一个真正能站在这种在英国生活的外国人的立场，为我们去争取一些权力和利益。让我们这个群体能够受到更多的关注，更多的重视。

所以，如果你也是一个在英国的外国人，我们非常欢迎你能加入到我们这个大家庭。让我们来一起努力，帮你走出你的困难，你的不开心。让你每天都能有一个好心情。然后能够真正的enjoy，真正的能享受你在英国每一天的工作、学习和生活。


记得，WelcomeHome. 欢迎回家。谢谢！