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Radio Berkshire,4 mins

Mothering the motherless – Slough seminar takes on adoption and fostering

Louise Chandler

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‘There’s a lot more to life than bread’, a Slough empowerment group has been tackling taboos of West Indian adoption and fostering at the Beating the Odds seminar in Slough’s Haymill Centre. Christina Brooks-Abraham, from VIBE (Vision Impression Black Expression), explains to BBC Radio Berkshire’s Louise Chandler how abandonment and culture is the social responsibility of us all, to children who fall off the radar.

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