Grigori Rasputin
Former Somali Minister of Mismanagement & Misinfo.
Staff Member
Wariyaha SomaliSpot
https://www.gofundme.com/help-me-bring-my-child-home
Good Day,
My name is Habone Abdi and I am a canadian citizen. I have a son (Hakim) who turned 3yrs old this month . He is also a canadian. My nightmare begun on October 2016 when the father of my son extended an invitation for my son and I to visit him in French Guiana. We were scheduled to visit him and his mother in their family home from the 16th to the 30th of November 2016. Before heading to French Guiana, I spent a day in Paris in order for my son to meet his paternal aunt and paternal grandfather.
When we finally got to French Guiana, my son's father and his mother were very courteous at first. Although from the start of our visit Hakim's father was hinting that we should prolong our stay, it wasn't until the last four days of our visit that he became very insisting and said he wanted our son to remain in French Guiana. Two days prior to our scheduled departure date, his father stole Hakim's canadian passport and voiced his intention to retain Hakim in the country. Thus forcing me to also remain in French Guiana.
He did not stop there, despite the fact that it was evident that without a passport, we couldn't leave, he still removed Hakim from the house in which we were staying and took him to an unknown location for two days. My son never spent a night away from my tender loving arms and he was subjected for the next two days to an unknown environnement. The local police was unwilling to help despite the fact that Hakim and I were in a foreign country with the nearest canadian embassy being one country away.
We were to return to Canada on December 2nd 2016 and we are now in FEBRUARY. The most frustating aspect in all of this is is the fact that our government deems that even in our extremely difficult situation, the father's signature or a court document voiding the former is required to replace the passport. The legal document is to be produced by a judicial court that operates outside of the habitual residence of the child hence in contradiction with the international law convention.
The father also started legal proceeding for child custody in his home country. I have thus been force to retain a lawyer in French Guiana in order to navigate these foreign proceedings. The custody hearing held on January 9th 2017, to this the date has not produced a resolution from the judge. With no end in signt and on the brick of despair, my family has urged me to also contact a lawyer in Edmonton, Alberta. Currently with his help we are attempting everything in order to bring Hakim back home with me.
Our current living arrangements in French Guiana are not ideal. We rely on the charity of others and the support of my family. I did not anticipate to be here for this long nor did I ever expect to fight for custody in a foreign country.
The goal for this page is to bring awareness to stories like mine and to receive financial support. Funds collected would help pay for legal fees and for our return travel costs.
We must approach the odoyaasha beesha French Guiana ...
but but but they don't have such a culture 
Good Day,
My name is Habone Abdi and I am a canadian citizen. I have a son (Hakim) who turned 3yrs old this month . He is also a canadian. My nightmare begun on October 2016 when the father of my son extended an invitation for my son and I to visit him in French Guiana. We were scheduled to visit him and his mother in their family home from the 16th to the 30th of November 2016. Before heading to French Guiana, I spent a day in Paris in order for my son to meet his paternal aunt and paternal grandfather.
When we finally got to French Guiana, my son's father and his mother were very courteous at first. Although from the start of our visit Hakim's father was hinting that we should prolong our stay, it wasn't until the last four days of our visit that he became very insisting and said he wanted our son to remain in French Guiana. Two days prior to our scheduled departure date, his father stole Hakim's canadian passport and voiced his intention to retain Hakim in the country. Thus forcing me to also remain in French Guiana.
He did not stop there, despite the fact that it was evident that without a passport, we couldn't leave, he still removed Hakim from the house in which we were staying and took him to an unknown location for two days. My son never spent a night away from my tender loving arms and he was subjected for the next two days to an unknown environnement. The local police was unwilling to help despite the fact that Hakim and I were in a foreign country with the nearest canadian embassy being one country away.
We were to return to Canada on December 2nd 2016 and we are now in FEBRUARY. The most frustating aspect in all of this is is the fact that our government deems that even in our extremely difficult situation, the father's signature or a court document voiding the former is required to replace the passport. The legal document is to be produced by a judicial court that operates outside of the habitual residence of the child hence in contradiction with the international law convention.
The father also started legal proceeding for child custody in his home country. I have thus been force to retain a lawyer in French Guiana in order to navigate these foreign proceedings. The custody hearing held on January 9th 2017, to this the date has not produced a resolution from the judge. With no end in signt and on the brick of despair, my family has urged me to also contact a lawyer in Edmonton, Alberta. Currently with his help we are attempting everything in order to bring Hakim back home with me.
Our current living arrangements in French Guiana are not ideal. We rely on the charity of others and the support of my family. I did not anticipate to be here for this long nor did I ever expect to fight for custody in a foreign country.
The goal for this page is to bring awareness to stories like mine and to receive financial support. Funds collected would help pay for legal fees and for our return travel costs.
We must approach the odoyaasha beesha French Guiana ...
but but but they don't have such a culture
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Was he perhaps not allowed to enter Canada?
Maxa?
