Letter to the caranua board

[micheal]

Letter to the board members of Caranua, my name is Michael,

I as a survivor of sexual abuse from members of the church and part of the survivors group the shame of Ireland. I am entitled to access to our fund by virtue of my redress award.

I wish to let it be know that we have no confidence in your management of our fund, we also have no confidence in Mary Higgins the ceo of caranua in her job as day to day manager of the fund, for the following reasons,

As there are survivors on the board who know that no abuser was brought to justice, to court, to jail in fact all got away scot free for their serious crimes against children, so for the board to agree with the heavy handed wording of new guidelines which talks about, audits conducted on survivors by caranua, court proceedings brought against survivors by caranua and other such inflammatory words, this is insulting, degrading and an abuse of our human rights. I am shocked to see data relating to up to 20k of survivors money being spent by you on just one meeting, so we of which we means several hundred have no confidence in you as a board, how can you reconcile the needs of survivors with your actions.

We also have no confidence in Mary Higgins as ceo and she needs to be replaced before she can cause anymore damage, it is within your power to have a vote of no confidence in her. No survivor would agree to the wording of the new guidelines  and i know for a fact that certain staff in caranua do not agree with her notions relating to the insulting, discriminatory and abusive attitude to survivors.

Despite the huge wages staff take, the huge expenses eg costs and others, what has caranua achieved for survivors as a group, answer nothing, so while staff are living very nice lifestyles on our money, we continue to suffer, i have tried to engage caranua on these facts many times,

I was discriminated against by being refused housing help because of living in private rented housing, despite the fact the house is in a shocking state.

my human rights were abused because of the above and the payment process which was forced on us for two and a half years despite the very serious data protection and right to privacy issues involved.

I suffer a serious dental condition for which i was refused all help,

I was refused help when i was homeless despite suffering a serious  mental health issue, while you were all treated to a nice hotel jaunt in london paid from survivors money to the tune of 20,000, how many more of these meetings will we find out about,  not one advisor in 2 and a half years has offered me any help, i have been fighting these caranua abuses since early 2014, caranua affected my last appeal by providing misinformation to appeals officer, i have not got so much as an apology.

It is not a survivor agenda running caranua, it is the ceo’s personal agenda which runs caranua, i could add loads more stories, proved in writing about shocking dealings we as survivors have had at your hands, but then this letter would become a book.

Let's take a brief look at how absurd and how out of touch caranua is with survivors,

I find it hard to believe that everyone in caranua believes these guidelines and the heavy handed wording used are in the best interests of survivors, unless the whole system is completely corrupt, they are not even in caranuas best interests, i also find it hard to believe that a board which contains survivors would approve this and they will be getting a letter from our group outlining this, here are the issues with the new guidelines,
The statements are very heavy handed and a lot of survivors will be intimidated by this, is this your intention?
Yet more survivors will see this as an opportunity to get caranua into open court which is a dream held by many survivors, to argue out our points and let a judge decide.

Surely you must understand that the people who committed these crimes against us have all gotten away with it,,never brought before the courts no jail time and now we have an absurd situation whereby caranua despite the fact that the dpp would never be stupid enough to give us our day in court, using this type of language in the guidelines.
caranua is going way beyond its remit by talking about audits on survivors, yet more absurd behavior, think about it a group as in caranua take a large portion of the fund to do with as they please ie wages and could yet end up taken the people whom the monies belong ie survivors to,court for,doing the same, it is hard for survivors to have confidence that our fund is being managed in the proper manner,

Mary Higgins is trying to intimidate survivors with the wording of new guidelines, i will not be intimidated and will use all avenues, legal, media, human rights commision to bring caranua to task, i will never stop, it is shameful that survivors on the board would allow wording like this in the guidelines,we stand together for justice for survivors if you had any sense you would join us, which is your job to look after our best interests not your own, not spend our fund on your own expenses and lavish wages, i have for years tried to engage caranua on these points and have been completely ignored, you are mismanaging our fund something which you will have to answer for in court.

Best regards Michael from the shame of ireland survivors group, we get no funding or want any, we have no vested interests or only interest is helping survivors and seeing that our human rights are upheld, which were supposed to be your interests.

[micheal]

Graham sorry to hear that and happy to have you on board, Michael

[micheal]

Grrrr really furious the they meet with right of place, these guys are gangsters plain and simple, using our name to get rich, i have told caranua this last year. Michael

[Marylou]

well done to all of  you 

[Barbie]

Well said Micheal, you should copy and send that letter to every politician in the Dail and send it to all the media as a press release on behalf of us all!!! All the caranua revamp and new guidelines are just another way for Mary Higgins and Co including all members of the Board to justify spending our money, they have to come up with ways to hide the money they are charging to expenses they not only get paid salaries but they get expenses for all their travel etc. Barbara   

[micheal]

Im doing that right now babara for politicans, if you want to gather up some press emails for me that would be a big help, thanks Michael

[Rob Northall]

Sent you some media to contact in a message

[robert]

Hi Michael it is good to see you writing this letter to the CEO and the CARANUA FUND can you also post it to Survivors who stand together bud as wee need all survivors online to see we stand together for the same cause? Love your letter Micheal well done and hope others will do the same as it will keep pressure on the Education Minister and the CEo because if you write to one and not the other you end up in a kinda TENNIS MATCH where they say they can only go by the guidelines of EACH OTHER so by posting letters Emails and comments we can show them they have to be fair otherwise as Rob just posted HOW CAN IT BE NOW FAIR on ALL Survivors coming to the CARANUA fund KNOWING some Survivors got between 30 toover €100,000 EACH. This is NOT FAIR just like the RIGHT OF PLACE and the MILLIONS gone missing they are BRUSHING it all under the CARPET of CARELESS Coverups NO MORE we should DEMAND how they aim to clean up the history of MISSING MONEY and how they are to fund all survivors in all fairness to the same VALUE as they ProMISEd from day one but now the CAT is out of the BAG as Rob said we only know now? NO WAY they have to CLOSE the CARANUA FUND DOWN and CLOSE THE RIGHT OF PLACE and  all Survivors who Suffered the Right of Place should be REDRESSED  and those who the Caranua fund have REFUSED also because it is NOW OBVIOUS this FUND and the RIGHT OF PLACE ARE WORKING  to PREVENT SURVIVORS AND THEIR CHILDREN FROM PROPER HEALING AND FAIR JUSTICE TIME TO GET  THESE PLACES CLOSED DOWN . We need to demand the EDUCATION MINISTER,  HEALTH MINISTER THE WELFARE MINISTER AND THE JUSTICE MINISTER TO DO THEIR JOBS TO SET UP LIFE FUNDS FOR ALL SURVIVORS AND THEIR CHILDREN and Recognize US AS THE TRUE ETHNIC COMMUNITY and REOPEN ALL SERVICES THAT WERE CLOSED IN the HEALTH WELFARE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

[robert]

Higgins has Fucked this fund right up and got CAUGHT time for her to GO and her IMMEDIATE STAFF

[robert]

Rob time to get something together and send the demand for the CARANUA FUND to be CLOSED down and reclaim the 6000 million back as the deals never worked on behalf of the Abused. The RELIGIOUS never OWNED the DONATIONS they were trusted with CHILDREN and WOMEN and ALL DONATIONS they abused the CHILDREN and WOMEN and KEPT THE DONATIONS so how can a Government charge the People for a Government being caught abusing the Families of Ireland

[robert]

We should demand all Investigations to take place and have Right of Place  and all funded Groups and CARANUA CLOSED DOWN.

ENOUGH IS  ENOUGH

Again well done Michael .

We still hear nothing from the CEO on the latest revelations from her corrupt fund