In the UK we had Windrush Day this week, commemorating the day in 1948 when 492 West Indian immigrants arrived. UK claims it was to help rebuild Britain!
If we hadn’t been sending Home Children (100,000) around the world, often suffering abuse and child slavery, usually in religious institutions, then there’d have been no need.
So was it to rebuild Britain, or part of a mixed-race eugenics policy still ongoing today?
And I think we should have a Home Children Day to remember them!!
Canada already has a Home Child Day, Wikipedia: ‘The federal government proclaimed 2010 the “Year of the British Home Child” and … makes 28 September each year ‘British Home Child Day’ to “…recognize and honour the contributions of the British home children who established roots in Ontario”.
My Werewolf of Oz book’s theme of deportation to Australia was inspired by hearing about the Home Children case in 2010; due to social worker Margaret Humphreys uncovering it, told in the Oranges and Sunshine book and movie; when I was also hearing about modern homes children being targeted by mostly Muslim grooming gangs, as they were the most vulnerable and needy!