<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV id=yiv1077270009><FONT size=4>Please consider helping to reunite seperated families with this petition. Thanks for your time, Faith Kenrick<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV><STRONG>Thought for the Day:</STRONG> <FONT color=#000099><EM>"<FONT color=#ff0000>Change</FONT> <FONT color=#ff7f00>the way</FONT> <FONT color=#bfbf00>you look</FONT> <FONT color=#00bf60>at things</FONT> <FONT color=#0000ff>and the</FONT> <FONT color=#a040ff>things you</FONT> <FONT color=#bf005f>look<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #111111"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" color=#bfbf00> at</FONT></FONT><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> </FONT></FONT><FONT color=#111111><FONT color=#a94a76>change</FONT>.</FONT>"</EM></FONT> Dr. Wayne Dyer</DIV>
<DIV> (Emotional Freedom Technique nugget)</DIV></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 27/10/09, All African Women's Group <I><aawg02@googlemail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: All African Women's Group <aawg02@googlemail.com><BR>Subject: Sign the mothers & children reunion petition<BR>To: faircraft2002@yahoo.co.uk<BR>Date: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009, 4:31 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal>We are writing to introduce you to The Mothers’ Campaign of the All African Women’s Group. We are mothers who have had to flee to the UK leaving our children behind in our home country. We left our children when we saw they would be safer without us. (We enclose our leaflet below.)
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<P class=MsoNormal>We are launching a petition with our demands for family reunion and invite you to sign it at <A href="http://www.petitiononline.com/MumsKids/petition.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.PetitionOnline.com/MumsKids/petition.html</A>
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<P class=MsoNormal>We are gathering signatures between now and Mothers’ Day in March next year. We would very much appreciate your support and hope you can initially help us by circulating the petition amongst your friends, family and network.
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<P class=MsoNormal>Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you require any further information.
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT color=#800000><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt">The Mothers’ Campaign </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">of</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt"> the </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 20pt">All African Women’s Group</SPAN></I></B></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3>We are mothers who have had to flee to the UK leaving our children behind in our home country. Our lives were at risk – most of us have been through rape and other torture; some of us have seen family members killed. We left our children when we saw they would be safer without us. We didn’t know where we were going, or how, or if we would survive. </FONT></B>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">When we claim asylum we are not recognised as mothers who are suffering separation from their children. Even when we win the right to stay, we still face the pain of being prevented from reuniting our family.</SPAN></B>
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<DIV><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">"We are consumed by guilt and worry. Every meal we eat we think of whether our children have food. But our love for them is also what keeps us going. Sometimes you feel so hopeless, you want to end your life but knowing your children need you is what makes you keep fighting.” </SPAN></I></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 14.2pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 14.2pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 14.2pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3>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. </FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 14.2pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3>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. </FONT></B>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0cm; MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 27.25pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>That when the government grants amnesty to families with children here – their right to stay without having to establish a fear of persecution – that we, together with our children back home, must also have a right to family amnesty. Though we are divided, we are a family.</FONT></DIV></LI></UL>
<P style="MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 27.25pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma> </FONT><U><FONT color=#800000 size=3 face=Tahoma>When we win our right to stay we demand:</FONT></U></B>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0cm; MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 27.25pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=3>Unconditional right to family reunion </FONT><SPAN lang=EN><FONT size=3>to everyone who wins the right to stay in the UK (whether under the refugee convention, humanitarian protection, human rights act, legacy process or other grounds)</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3>. </FONT></FONT></DIV></LI>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0cm; MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 27.25pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>The right of children to join their mother even if they turned 18 before her asylum claim was settled.</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> </SPAN></DIV></LI></UL>
<P style="MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 27.25pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma>We urge British embassies/high commissions in our home countries to show their commitment to families by helping to find our<B> </B>missing children and reunite them with their mothers.</FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 27.25pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face=Tahoma> </FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><I><FONT size=3>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.”</FONT></I><FONT size=3> </FONT></FONT><B><FONT color=#800000 size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Letter from a teenage girl whose mother was forced to leave her four children behind</FONT>.</FONT></B></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 9pt; MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 17.05pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT color=#800000><B>All African Women’s Group,</B></FONT> <A href="http://uk.mc245.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=centre@crossroadswomen.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #0000ff; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">aawg02</SPAN></A><A style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://uk.mc245.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=centre@crossroadswomen.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank>@gogglemail.net</A>.</SPAN>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 9pt; MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 17.05pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Crossroads Women’s Centre, 230a Kentish Town Rd</SPAN>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 9pt; MARGIN: 6pt 2.85pt 0pt 17.05pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">London NW5 2AB</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">, Tel: 020 7482 2496</SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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