Thursday, 18 June 2020

A follow up to the Mains Tendues story


What a fabulous photo to wake up to.
Besha Ahmed returns after his travels
I cannot tell you how much love and respect not just I, but friends and family hold him in.
If ever I am a bit low I will remember this photo 💖

Besha says
« Even kids when you hug them feel like you need cuddles and not them nothing is more honest, beautiful and influential as a baby smile. »

One of the young men who arrived here from Sudan, escaping being killed, was Besha. He made an immediate impression, cooking for everyone ,making meals sometimes for 50, in the waiting stations, waiting for asylum.
He has a passion for cooking and when he got his asylum papers with a bit of help from a friend of mine who has a big hotel in Toulouse on the Place Capitol, a job was secured as a cook in a restaurant on the Place Capitol. He spends two days at cookery school and even with the struggles with his now third language French, he comes top in his exams.
He has saved his wages to go to Ethopia next to Sudan and arranged for his mother and sister to meet him there. He had not seen them for nearly five years.

Life in France has never been so diverse. I have learnt not just about France but life around the world, and feel enriched by it all
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