Dear friend,
Thank you for your effort of writing a letter to the world, to me, in which you tell about your life circumstances…. These are terrible, this is very shocking and painful and I do empathise with you and wish so much a better life for you.
So, you are from Gambia. I’m sorry to hear that you lost your wife. You escaped a number of times, experienced torture. And you want to fight for the future of your children, your two daughters and your son. I hope in some way you can stay in touch with them, with your relatives.
As I understand the circumstances on the island are terrible. You live outside the camp, I hear about rats and other dangerous situations. And there’s hardly any good medical care.
I do very much appreciate and admire your reaching out, and I’m very angry that European governments, including in the Netherlands where I live, are not doing more to help, and receive refugees, who have the right for a human dignified existence. I and we will keep pressing on them to change their policies toward greater hospitality and humanness.
Dear friend, I’m thinking of you and sending you warm greetings – I’m sorry I can’t do more in a direct sense – please: know that you are not forgotten.
Warmly and all best wishes, A
Dear friend,
Thank you for your effort of writing a letter to the world, to me, in which you tell about your life circumstances…. These are terrible, this is very shocking and painful and I do empathise with you and wish so much a better life for you.
So, you are from Gambia. I’m sorry to hear that you lost your wife. You escaped a number of times, experienced torture. And you want to fight for the future of your children, your two daughters and your son. I hope in some way you can stay in touch with them, with your relatives.
As I understand the circumstances on the island are terrible. You live outside the camp, I hear about rats and other dangerous situations. And there’s hardly any good medical care.
I do very much appreciate and admire your reaching out, and I’m very angry that European governments, including in the Netherlands where I live, are not doing more to help, and receive refugees, who have the right for a human dignified existence. I and we will keep pressing on them to change their policies toward greater hospitality and humanness.
Dear friend, I’m thinking of you and sending you warm greetings – I’m sorry I can’t do more in a direct sense – please: know that you are not forgotten.
Warmly and all best wishes, A