Evening with the Community

I was unable to reach the British Red Cross this evening in the Sports complex at Grenfell site.... The police cordon had been extended and the local station closed.... so walked around the surrounding community and had some time by the Methodist church ..then tried to find the Mosque... the Muslim couple I asked I found to be a very brave and good man father-of-four Hassan Kaissi....he had run to help the emergency teams... and he gave prayers over Mohammad now known to be our Syrian refugee.... I thanked him for doing this ... there were hugs ... and his story of constant hearing the cries haunt him..... told him this part of the journey and he needs to get his GP to help him with some post trauma counselling..... what I hear him saying is just what Dante (my Syrian refugee Family Link Up project) tells me of his time in the airstrikes...... this needs catharsis counselling and support to work through all the emotions from feeling angry with situation , anger with self as can feel let others down but in reality the situation was overwhelming and no one could have got all the victims out in time.... there is the experience of first time seeing deceased bodies...... this is something that doctors and nurses need to always remember of the public that are often distant from death.....we need to support through the pain and emotions of loss.... so even though I did not get in to join the Red Cross teams .... was able to at least support this brave and kind man that rushed to help others......... 

it is so difficult in the community for them to now constantly see the tower but in a way is helping them talk to bring in the reality of the loss... there is anger and frustration with all the situation and despite attending meetings still feel muddled with events.....People shout.... people talk.... people pray......People stand and stare..... people ask questions....... people angry with the whole situation....... people fear community will never be the same....... people fear being sent away from the area that no matter the housing state and social housing was their home....... 
The walk to the Holland park station passed expensive immaculate kept housing, The contrast sharp from one section to another....... But one thing for sure when you see the density of population in London there is a lot of tax being generated a lot of revenue to the treasury ... so what is the housekeeping spreadsheet like for local councils....... why the need to cut corners with budgets....????? Met some kindly labour party members helping and we have all asked why we cannot get our Jeremy in government we would have a different society with a fairer distribution of resources for the many not the few..

I feel for this community the more now i spend time with them all ... feels like being on community as Sister RN RM ...... hope I can meet with the community nurses and midwives over the next few days and weeks... passed a good GP practice..so will call in during the week to meet up.

A message for us all one and all politicians, Councillors, developers and all communities that make up the Global Family we are....A message in all world religions and should move our daily life in that love for one another. 

Dante my Syrian Family Link Up refugee and me in our counselling always have a focus on the beauty of flowers when faced with ugliness of loss and pain in war 

...and so in this peacetime horror of a rampant fire from incompetent use of building materials....I bring you a flower too.  

A tower of flowers seen in the sight of a tower that lost so many lives that were flowers never to bloom in their full entirety

Someone was saying maybe we should have a webpage for those lives to be shared and for us all to remember them all from the life they had before so cruelly taken.

and so to the immaculate housing in the private sector as I walked to Holland Park station... with gardens full of beautiful flowers and birds singing .. that is something yes when I think back no birds were singing near the tower as if feel the loss there.....but on this street was evening song of birds.....

WE need to be a Global Family caring for one another and never be without our basic needs for shelter in safety... a good leader ensures this...