The CEO came in big time for us today. Basically Mbamie and her husband and her brother Mpastor and his wife (who recently came to the US) have been under a dark bureaucratic cloud since the spouse's arrivals. The cloud was under the hospices of government subsidized housing. There was a bunch of red tape that the newly arrived spouses were supposed to have jumped through, but immigration is taking FOREVER and both households were facing violations of their housing contracts. The manager was furious- and I mean furious. She was saying how she could loose her job, how their program was in jeopardy, how they could be fined all because these legally arrived refugees do not have all their paperwork in (through no fault of their own, but due to more bureaucratic none sense).
After venting, and seeing that the refugees have not done anything "wrong", after putting the fear of homelessness into them, the manager finally got on her phone and talked with a superior and they came up with a very doable and easy solution, so that the households could stay together. (They had been saying that they would have to evict the newcomers at least until the proper paperwork could be processed).
Mbamie and her husband did not sleep well last night. Apparently, in her housing contract, it mentions a fine of $10 000.00 and jail time for keeping people in the home who are not under the rent agreement. I scoffed at her, but she swears it's true and that people have not only been evicted, but the cops were called in to get them out for similar circumstances.
What was lunacy in this is that it's all meaningless. I understand that the manager needs to have her ducks in a row, but what they are missing is an ID so that she can run a criminal background check and a renters check on them. What they will find is obviously nothing! DUH, they just got here in the country. But she has to have her little papers saying she ran the checks or face troubles of her own.
What was beautiful in all this was how the CEO totally dismantled the bomb before us and smiled favorably on the families and kept them together, with some easy solution (a letter saying they are going to bring in the ID card when immigration gets it to them). AND how the refugees were so totally respectful and even thankful to the hard slamming manager.
They told her that she had treated them like a mother, that words could not express their thanks and may God bless her abundantly. Most Americans in their situation would have gotten angry back and given her the finger, instead, these refugees who love the King send blessing amidst their strife and even speak blessing over the system. They said they could understand how it was good to have all these rules, how in Africa no one follows rules and chaos ensues.
Thank you CEO for bringing right order- your favorable order and favor on us today.
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AMAZING!!!!!
Things have a way of working out when both parties are helpful and seek a solution. So glad the families could stay together. the redtape they face much be maddening. Like my own trials with disability and Medicare. Enjoying the blog and your tales of home. God bless you!
Good to meet you Andrew- thanks for the comments and glad you are finding encouragement here. May your red tape dissolve and smolder like tinsel caught in a flame and you have ease to get the help you need.
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