My mum she raised me, she is everything. She is my doctor, my nurse, everything... to live without her is very difficult but that is my reality.
Dawit*, arrived from Eritrea at 15.
While many are looking forward to Mother's Day, it's a difficult time for others, including for many refugee children.
Refugee children are still suffering trauma. They need their parents’ love and support to cope with unimaginable circumstances.
But the UK’s unfair Family Reunion rules mean that separated refugee children are prevented from bringing their parents to join them in safety to the UK.
Rather than focusing on school and making friends, they’re consumed with grief for the family they’ve left behind.
But it does not have to be like this.
All of the UK’s closest neighbours allow separated refugee children to sponsor their parents to join them.
The government can change the rules with just the stroke of a pen.
Children need their parents.
This Mother’s Day, call on the government to reunite refugee families.
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