We read this picture book today
a quote from it leapt out at me :Current waiting time in detension can be up to six years. and suddenly I'm back
to a family with 3 young children and a mother who hasn't spoken or left their room
to a visit to Baxter where three young men came up and thanked us for bringing our boys because they were beginning to forget what their younger siblings looked like and it was so beautiful to see children just play again
but they tell me:
we have limited resources
we can't take them all
their taking our jobs
and my thoughts move forward to a recent Compass programme that highlighted the reluctance of three young men to come from africa because
they'll treat us like we're monkeys
and back again i remember the privilage of homeschooling two "non-persons" for a term and celebrating the birthday of the youngest with a special picnic in the park, the oldest has a smile that could have lit up all of Adelaide..
even though she'd traveled as a "non-person" ... still kept smiling..... 6 years..........
to a family with 3 young children and a mother who hasn't spoken or left their room
to a visit to Baxter where three young men came up and thanked us for bringing our boys because they were beginning to forget what their younger siblings looked like and it was so beautiful to see children just play again
but they tell me:
we have limited resources
we can't take them all
their taking our jobs
why don't they just go back
and my thoughts move forward to a recent Compass programme that highlighted the reluctance of three young men to come from africa because
they'll treat us like we're monkeys
and back again i remember the privilage of homeschooling two "non-persons" for a term and celebrating the birthday of the youngest with a special picnic in the park, the oldest has a smile that could have lit up all of Adelaide..
even though she'd traveled as a "non-person" ... still kept smiling..... 6 years..........
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