CALL TO ACTION RE 3000 CHILD REFUGEES

[fallingapartfast]

CALL TO ACTION! If you have or know kids who can write at all, please get them to write to David Cameron regarding the hideous and shameful decision by the Government not to give refuge to 3000 unaccompanied children fleeing war. The goal is to get 3000 letters through his letterbox by the end of the week.
Write to:
The Rt Hon David Cameron MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
Please share this far and wide on your social media networks and pass on the idea by word of mouth

Kirinm, see here for why I am sceptical about their being really children. There has been incident after incident of supposed 'children' being in their late 20's or 30's. There is a lot of preferential treatment for children, so posing as one has huge benefits.

Attack me if you like. I simply cannot understand why anyone would object to assisting 3000 kids. I know lots of people have different opinions about the refugee crisis generally and I'm not referring to that.

The amendment was to assist 3000 children which given how many child refugees there are is not a great deal yet for reasons I cannot fathom, people still don't want to help. Just because there are desperate situations in other countries doesn't mean we can turn our backs on these children.

Strange - that link just brought up spam for me I'm afraid so I can't read it.

There is alot of on going work re safe drinking water and many other issues in Africa and other parts of the world. If you don't believe me Google it (although you'd have to be living under a rock not to already know this)
There is also a hell of a lot of work and resources put into safe guarding children and vulnerable people in this country. Again you must be aware of this.
The fact that neither of these problems have been solved and not all children can be saved is not an argument to restrict any aid we can provide to children caught up in an emerging humanitarian crisis.
I fail to see how that was an excellent post at all actually.

Unfortunately though it won't be Google etc dealing with the effects of these 3000 children. It will be this countries poorest and most vulnerable that affected. Doesn't matter how rich the richest are.

How can it bring up 'spam'? Spam is unsolicited commercial email. What did you see? It's a link to a web article about 'refugees' in Sweden making fraudulent claims to be children.

I'm
Not attackng anyone.
I think letters by young children do tend to have an overly emotional essence, so I feel very sceptical about this.
Also, I'm sceptical of people who appeal to others to help instead of doing it themselves.
OP didn't say how many she is taking in herself.
I'm not prepared to take any in, so I think it wood be hypocritical for me t call on for others to do it.

I can help with a money donation and I'm comfortable in asking other to do it too.

I'm in. Good idea.

we were talking about this this morning- dcs raised it- they were

3000 kids is a piss in the ocean

also. We have been smugly patting ourselves on the back for 70 odd years about the Kindertransport. That was a much bigger operation than this would be. We need to take a good hard look in the mirror if we think not taking in 3000 is justifiable.

As for looking after children here. YES! Look after them, too! Fund the social sector properly! There is plenty of money sloshing about in this country to fund ALL of this.

I think it is an emotional issue.
In what way am I asking others to help instead of doing it myself?
But yes agree that people will find their own ways of supporting the refugees.

Thanks to those who have posted positively. It would be great to make this happen. A moving action I think.

In a way that you are not fostering any yourself.

How do you know that Chardonnay?

I asked you twice and you didn't reply.

So how many are you taking in?

this trope that gets wheeled out on these threads 'how many will YOU take in'

I looked it up a while ago

it's not as simple as 'I've got a spare room, I'll take in a couple of Syrians'- I found something where Cameron had thanked people for expressing a willingness to take in refugees, but it wouldn't be necessary as everything would be dealt with via official channels, leave it to us sort of thing

basically- practical help is difficult; the only thing you can really do is donate money

We're just going to move this over to Campaigns.

I'm a foster Carer and have fostered unaccompanied asylum seeking children. It is not as simple as having a spare room or big heart. Language issues, trauma, the power of traffickers as well as navigating the immigration system make it really challenging. We need infrastructure changes first, and urgently need more foster carers or the children will just be exploited.

Any other children from the many other war torn countries we should ask our children to write to the politicians about - or are we just focusing on Syria? Are we planning to take children from every country in the future that has a war?

I won't be doing this.

Obviously if you don't like to talk to your kids about this stuff, or if your kids don't think children fleeing from IS deserve refuge, then that's cool, don't do it

Wow

It was you who essentially suggested using children as sock puppets in your OP

I'm snurking at the thought of a 6 year old writing an empathetic letter in the style of a teen soldier in WWI. My 6 year old mostly writes about Stampy and Darth Vader. He doesn't half get his head filled with some crap at school though - comes home telling me DC personally bombs Syria.

I was at the library today, there were lots of "thank you" letters to authors from the kids. One read Dear So-and-so, Thank you for your book about the robbery so I can do it when I grown up. [Anonymous] Aged 9.

The "country" might be wealthy, believe me - us peasants on the ground aren't.

We can't rescue every child on the planet. What's OP doing for the orphans of Zimbabwe? The street children of Burma? Ecuador? Bolivia? Brazil et al?

Chardonnay, as Muddha says, it is not as simple as saying I'll take in a couple, however we have discussed it as a family and will register with whatever databse for housing refugees might emerge if the Government starts to accept more than the paltry and shameful number it is currently agreeing to take in. But tbf my post isn't saying call to action offer your home to refugees, it was an invitation to a letter writing action.

Lol it's not blackmail or passive aggression. I'm sorry if it puts your back up. If this isn't your thing then it isn't your thing.

Yes it really is. Possibly the most PA thing I've read on MN this year.

Lol

OP, did you dig bare handed for burried children in Earthquake rubble last week, if not can you please tell me why your heart didn't bleed for those children?

fallingapart As others have suggested, phone your local council today and ask 1) how many children in your borough/county need a foster placement and 2) can they send you a registration pack.

Howto what's your point? Only those that did dig in earthquake rubble last week are allowed to care about or try to help any other children?
What an odd idea.