Mothers' Campaign of the All African Women's Group
Crossroads Women’s Centre, 230a Kentish Town Rd
London NW5 2AB, Tel: 020 7482 2496
We have launched a petition with our demands for family reunion and invite you to sign it at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/MumsKids/petition.html .
The Mothers’ Campaign of the All African Women’s Group n
n We sometimes lose contact with children back home. Or we hear of them suffering without our protection – living on the streets after caring relatives have died; taken by the military; or even turning to pick-pocketing and prostitution to survive and feed the younger ones.
We have hardly enough to feed ourselves but we do all we can to send money home for them. And if we don’t know where they are, we raise money to search for them. We do low-paid, illegal work or even sleep with men for money for them.
But if our kids turn 18 while we wait – often for years – for an asylum claim to be settled, we lose the right for them to join us.
This government talks so much about the importance of families and claims that “Every child matters”, yet our children are denied their mothers’ love and protection. None of the media stories about missing children which highlight the parents’ distress, even mention what we and our children are going through. We demand that:
We urge British embassies/high commissions in our home countries to show their commitment to families by helping to find our missing children and reunite them with their mothers. "Mummy, you are the only person I have to save me from everything I’m going through. Thomas screams every night. . . . I don’t even know what to say about Michael but he’s a baby boy who needs his mummy right now.” Letter from a teenage girl whose mother was forced to leave her four children behind.
For more information, including how you can help, contact
All African Women’s Group, aawg02@gmail.com Crossroads Women’s Centre, 230a Kentish Town Rd London NW5 2AB, Tel: 020 7482 2496 |
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