The happiest Christmas post ever.
After worrying for months that the Dublin convention would have our boys being sent back principally to Germany or Italy, We, the boys, the staff and benevoles are delighted that the fingerprints in the New Year will no longer be valid and the boys will at last be able to put in their asylum applications here in France.
It is the sort of Christmas present that means one has a chance to be safe with a new life.
Not many of us can understand exactly what this would mean as we are mostly secure in our nationality and safe lives.
Last night we had a cinema evening here at Mas del Sol and it was great to hear the relief and pleasure that asylum applications could go forward.
Lives were being planned and as I have heard many times before, one boy told me this.
"you stop running when you feel safe. I love this French village life where everyone is kind and seems to care about me, and I want to live my life like this without fear"
Our boys feeling safe and getting their chance to apply for asylum, well we need no better present.
It has taken months but our summer days are going to roll to winter months .... all safe
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