Save Our Sister: An appeal from the Lovell - Kamba Family
Dear All,
Please consider signing the petition to Save my daughter Jeanine Kamba from being removed from the UK to the Democratic Replublic of Congo.
Just click on the link below to be taken straight to the online petition.
<http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jeanine_kamba/>http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jeanine_kamba/
See information below and attached and be aware that I have posted instructions for signing the petition at the beginning of the information on the ipetitions site, so for all those who "liked" us on facebook...... try again please as "liking" us doesnt mean you have signed as we are unable to get your address from Facebook!
Please forward to your friends and ask them to sign!
With Thanks
Jacqui Lovell - Jeanines mother
<jacquiluvslife@hotmail.com>
Asylum petition handed to ministers
A petition in support of a Congolese asylum seeker's bid to stay on Teesside is being handed over to Government ministers. Supporters of Jeanine Kamba were on the streets of Middlesbrough on Wednesday gathering signatures. The total has now reached 4,500.
by Emma Greenhalgh, Evening Gazette, 19th March 2011
Background: Jeanine Kamba
(Wrongly registered by the UKBA (United Kingdom Border Agency) as Jeanine Bateka)
Home Office Ref Number K1226380/2
Jeanine Kamba is to be deported from the UK on Friday after being detained by the UK Border Authority.
Jeanine, 18, came to the UK in 2005 after fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Her father died in 1995 and her mother went missing in 2003 and has not been seen since. Her older brother Blaise took responsibility for both Jeanine and her sister Leitichia, but was forced to return to the DRC in 2009, despite objections from senior Bishops of the Church of England and local media, amid serious concerns for his well-being.
After returning to the DRC, Blaise was imprisoned. We secured his release 18 months ago and since then he has not been seen or heard from.
Since arriving in the UK, Jeanine has been in full-time education and is currently pursuing an NVQ Level Two in Health and Social Care, after earning her Level One qualification. She aims to become a social worker in order to help people in need, and has recently begun to volunteer at a local nursing home.
Jeanine, along with Leitichia, was released from detention into the care of Jacqui Lovell in 2009. She is now considered as much a part of the family as Jacqui's other 5 children Lauren, Grace and their three younger sisters.
Jeanine's sister Leitichia now has a son with her partner Jonathan, and is living in London. Now a loving auntie, Jeanine often travels to see her nephew Jensley, and cherishes her time spent with him. She has begun taking vital steps in recovering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the traumatic events in her past. She still suffers from terrible headaches and nightmares, but has made some progress in overcoming these, thanks to counselling from her mother Jacqui.
As required, on Thursday 10th March, Jeanine attended her monthly signing at her local police station where she was forcibly detained by five UKBA officials.
Jeanine is currently being held in Yarls Wood Detention Centre, and is scheduled to be deported back to the DRC, where she has no family or friends, no place to live, and no means of supporting herself.
The DRC has the highest incidence of rape and domestic violence anywhere in the world. If her deportation were to happen, Jeanine is almost certain to be subject to these atrocities.
It is for all these reasons and more that we beg the Home Secretary Teresa May to show leniency and compassion in Jeanine's case. Jeanine, a teenager who has already suffered far too much for one so young, deserves to remain with her family in the UK, in order to continue her education, and to be allowed time to grow into the wonderful young woman that she is becoming.
It is the power of the people that can often make all the difference. Each signature is important. Please act now.
Please sign the online petition here . . . .
And join our facebook group to receive regular updates about what is happening for Jeanine by searching for Save.Our.Sister - An Appeal by the Lovell-Kamba Family on facebook or via email to Save.Our.Sister@groups.facebook.com |