Overall Aims

The Trust firmly believes that every former child migrant should enjoy the same rights, responsibilities and opportunities as the vast majority of their fellow citizens. Indeed, the Trust devotes much of its time and energy to ensure that former child  migrants might take these rights for granted as others generally do.

This means that former child migrants need full and factual information about their personal identity, their family and medical background.

Former child migrants also need to be fully involved in important matters of legal inheritance and citizenship.

In view of their especially difficult start in life, former child migrants need first class services to assist their recovery from damaging childhood experiences. This includes individual counselling as well as support for family reunions and applications for redress schemes.

Similar considerations apply to the families of former child migrants who also require a personal, skilled and professional service. Losing contact or hope of ever seeing a loved one again is clearly a very difficult experience to endure, especially over extended periods of time.

Former child migrants need to reclaim their personal history just as we need to reclaim our public history.