“No Pandemic or Epidemic can stop a Parent for wanting to hold their Child, or a Child wanting to be held by his or her Parent.”
April Lee is Peer Parent Advocate in the Family Advocacy Unit (FAU) of Community Legal Services
of Philadelphia. She’s also a poet, who
does readings throughout Philadelphia.
She wrote this for the lawyers in the FAU. Those lawyers – and Ms. Lee -
fight to keep families together in the place that tears them apart at the
highest rate among America’s top five cities.
She wrote it for the
lawyers. But everyone should read it:
Advocacy has changed in the face of this Pandemic; so has,
Life itself. I believe that our Job is more Crucial than ever. Millions of
voices are going unheard.
It is Great People like You; that are bringing truth to the
ears, that are able to hear. It is You, that brings focus to a picture, in
front of those who cannot see. These truths are often simple ones.
Truth: That no Pandemic or Epidemic can stop a Parent for
wanting to hold their Child, or a Child wanting to be held by his or her
Parent.
Truth: That Six Degrees of Separation, feels like 1000 miles
of lost and pain; and that " Six
Degrees Of Separation", can create years of distance, making it hard to
close the gap. The Gap: Created by people who have never known the hopeless
feeling that stems from being truly
separated.
My Hat comes off, to every one of YOU who are building a
Bridge for families to come together; even though they are apart.
It is people like you that reminds me that " the
struggle continue yet, Victory is certain".
I APPLAUD YOU, FAU
