Project Haven: Refugee Relief

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WHO: Brother Gideon, Alexandrie, Sidony, Cassius in name only, and you
WHAT: Feeding, clothing, and housing war refugees.
WHEN: August
WHERE: All around Kirkwall
NOTES: Everyone is welcome to volunteer, especially if they've been part of past Project Haven efforts.

I. Where House

Temporary a solution though it may be, the offering up of traders' warehouses is a relief to anyone concerned about the refugees lining the streets.
With some people sleeping on wooden pallets, others on patches of straw or sacks full of various uncomfortable materials, a call has been put out for unused beds and pillows, as many as one is willing to give.
Workers are instructed to keep detailed charts of which spaces are available, how many can fit in one row, and who among the refugees can be sent on to camp outdoors on one of the generously opened up countryside estates.

Brother Gideon is taking point on this matter, seated at a table for hours each day, addressing and placing the endless queue.
When the hour gets late and the last assignments have been made, there are times when he is too exhausted to do more than rest his head right there and fall asleep.

II. Food Fight

There is also the matter of food supplies and the organization and protection thereof, which has need of more than one volunteer to guard dry storage from thieves, animals, weather, and the overly greedy.
Citizens of Kirkwall have been asked to lend their cats, which can, at times, create its own problems: although the creatures are effective at keeping pests away, security will find themselves breaking up cat fights more often than deterring other people.


III. Some Things Never Change

Although a healthy portion of Kirkwall's denizens are willing to bear the inconvenience, there will always be those who have to make everyone's lives harder. A small congregation of venomously patriotic protestors have grown outside the dockside warehouse being used as the refugee base, who claim to be concerned that the refugees are, in fact, Tevinter agents-- or worse, foreigners here to take their jobs and change the Trade language.
They are mostly harmless but a massive pain in the collective ass, and could use some dealing with.

IV. Miscellaneous

[Top levels with related individual projects welcome and encouraged.]