Thursday 9 June 2016

Would you, please, help The Little Family? - continued







First and foremost, I want to thank you. To thank you all and each of you who have taken time to read my last long post. To thank you who have shown that you cared by clicking on the "like" key. To thank you who have written a comment, an encouragement, a sign of indignation, ideas to help. 
You may not imagine how much of a comfort these signs of support may be. The sudden feeling that what we live is really not normal; that, yes, things ought to be done to change the situation; that these inertia and negativity are not to be borne without a word; that we have a right to live normally; and that what we ask is not extraordinary but the facts and deeds of any life.
Thank you.
Since my cry for help, two days ago, I have received news from a French non governmental organisation that I had contacted. It is called l'Office chrétien des persones handicapées (OCH - Christian Office for Handicapped Persons) and is situated in Paris. You don't have to be a Christian to appeal to it, although we are Roman Catholics. This Organisation listens to people who have problems either because they are handicapped or because they are family or friends or relatives of handicapped people. It has a legal counseling small department as well: I have been given the name and email address of a legal advisor upon whom I have called today.
Being Roman Catholic, I also emailed the services in charge of the care of “the ill and disabled/handicapped” of our local bishopric in Périgueux. They may show spiritual concern but also material help, indicating local charities. These might help in turn in giving alms to do the great spring/summer cleaning of the house and the cutting of the grass. Thank you for pointing to me the resource of charities of which I had not thought.
I have emailed Anne-Fleur's financial administrator for the nth time, stating our needs once more, as I have stated them to you. I have received the receipt that says that the email has been opened but this is automatic: I have no answer, even an acknowledgement of the email.
The Head of the local Agency that provides the "Socialising/ Shopping/Cleaning Lady" and should be providing the team of cleaning ladies and the gardener is on holidays for the week. If she were to give an answer, that would not be before next week.
Things cannot evolve with lightening speed. But they have moved in two days - largely thanks to you. I was disheartened when I wrote the last post: I feel better today and when I feel better, The Girls feel happier. 
We still need you, your presence, your ideas, your support, your suggestions, and your reassurance. 
Please, do not leave us now: we are at the beginning of the road towards normality. Please, still comment; at least, click on "like" to show you have read. And if you are kind enough, share on social media.
The Little Family thanks you.


10 comments:

  1. I have read it and am glad things are beginning to improve.

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    1. Thank you, Ellen. We shall never know precisely the impact of the blog readers, the tweeters, and of the people on Facebook, but they all certainly counted. I am glad too that things seem to be improving. I hope for something written soon that would seal the engagement of the authorities. Then, there will be the whole process of implementation of the engagements.
      But this is encouraging.

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  2. So am I.

    Hope the Agency is fresh from their holidays and ready to work with alacrity.

    Admins and their e-mails...

    "Things cannot evolve with lightening speed. But they have moved in two days - largely thanks to you. I was disheartened when I wrote the last post: I feel better today and when I feel better, The Girls feel happier. "

    "Please, do not leave us now: we are at the beginning of the road towards normality. Please, still comment; at least, click on "like" to show you have read. And if you are kind enough, share on social media."

    And you were given a legal advisor!

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    1. Thank you, Adelaide: your support and your help in trying to find solutions from so far from France are heart-warming. I have adopted some of your suggestions and kept the others for other or further times.
      Yes, l'OCH has a small legal department and I was able to join a legal advisor. This is very reassuring.

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  3. Camille:

    going through my typing lessons. [lessons = lecons = reading]

    I had a read of the DISABILITY STUDIES QUARTERLY and Madeline Burghardt mentioned L'Arche.

    Found the link on the 23rd May 2016.

    Brokenness/Transformation: reflection on academic critiques of L'Arche

    MB is a long-term member of a L'Arche community in Toronto. She studies and teaches at York University.

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    1. L'Arche, as far as I know, has an unconventional way to deal with disabled persons. It is true that there is a religious component. Another organisation is the John Bost Foundation, which is more or less of the Reformed religion (it was founded by the Protestant John Bost Pastor). And the foundation of L'Arche is due to Jean Vannier who is a Roman Catholic.
      The Parisian organisation that I have contacted (l'OCH) is also Roman Catholic and works with L'Arche and the John Bost Foundation.
      L'Arche makes "normal" and disabled people live together. But this has been the whole philosophy behind Anne-Fleur's education. Nobody has ever wanted to keep her among other disabled persons in a specialised structures where the "normal" persons are psychiatrists, psychologists, MDs, nurses, etc. Even the Shopping/Socialising Lady, because she has a little diploma in social work, treats Anne-Fleur as disabled.
      She has always been treated within the family as someone who has difficulties, reduced potentialities, but who may increase them and live normally among normal people who will help her grow.
      In this perspective, caring for her is a whole time business. But it is extremely rewarding. She improves, reads, talks, discusses, does things.
      I shall read what you send me through this link but it may well be that the religious and the mixity able/disabled approaches are stumbling blocks for the scientific community.

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    2. Hooray!

      The normal persons can be friends and workers - core and helpers.

      A lot of the scientific community strongly embrace it through research, development, action.

      Ah - yes - Calvinism and its modern offshoots!

      Thank you for letting me know about the John Bost.

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  4. I am glad a ray of hope has entered!

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    1. Thank you, Diane.
      The legal advisor provided provided by the Christian Office (Organisation) for Handicapped Persons has been a great help but so has been the mobilization of bloggers and social media. There may be official news this week - and positive ones. Then, of course, there will be time for the whole process to be implemented. I must stay on the tip of my toes and keep pressure upon the various bodies who have to intervene. This is so long! But I hope it will not take another six months! When the car is repaired, whe shall be able to move as we wish, see more people, go shopping on our own, and start employing the "socialising/shopping lady as cleaning lady before we have a whole team to scour the house from basement to attic. And I shall be glad to have the grass cut around the house!
      It shall happen: we cannot stay as we are!
      Thank you for caring and helping.

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