I'm sure it's not deliberate, but to send asylum seekers to accommodation this far south - the Réhoboth is only 100 miles from the Spanish border, as the crow flies - in the full knowledge that they'll then struggle to attend essential interviews in Paris quite soon after, smacks of some sort of terribly unreasonable trial by ordeal. It's as if the system is set up to be difficult, to discourage the feeblest percentage, who will disappear from the process and try their luck elsewhere.
My new year's wish is that the lads at the Rehoboth don't get unduly put off by this, that they do develop a genuine desire to learn French and settle here, and that if anyone drops out it will be others, less determined, lodging elsewhere, who don't make the grade because the going became too tough. What an awful world we live in, where achieving ongoing shelter and nourishment becomes an official obstacle course, and gaining a degree of safety comes only through competition!
Happy New Year.
xC
Val says having spoken to others who help refugees around France, our centre is in a new situation just developing. In the past refugees go into an official CADA / a welcome centre and they would get their transport costs to get papers, but because we are an unofficial CADA, no provision has yet been made for reimbursing journeys. It is all a mad situation, I agree sending refugees miles away from Paris and then expecting them to go back at their own cost for an hour meeting, how daft is that?
I do not think it is a deliberate act, as I did not think the catering company sending in pork dishes for a week was a deliberate act.
I am sure everyone is as keen as the benevoles to get the boys with their asylum papers
( am I sure? )
Val says having spoken to others who help refugees around France, our centre is in a new situation just developing. In the past refugees go into an official CADA / a welcome centre and they would get their transport costs to get papers, but because we are an unofficial CADA, no provision has yet been made for reimbursing journeys. It is all a mad situation, I agree sending refugees miles away from Paris and then expecting them to go back at their own cost for an hour meeting, how daft is that?
I do not think it is a deliberate act, as I did not think the catering company sending in pork dishes for a week was a deliberate act.
I am sure everyone is as keen as the benevoles to get the boys with their asylum papers
( am I sure? )
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