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Crystal_Abongta
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What is the future of our Children?
September 4, 2003 - 09:38 AM
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Looking through the third world today, Africa in particular, I seem to see a bleak future for our children. Given the political egotism, chauvinism, power hunger and quest for supremacy on the drive? There seem really to be little hope for the future of our children. The African continent is engaged into wars (Its either Tribal, ethnic, civil or external wars) with one another while the western world keeps burying its self in a phantom fight against ghost terrorists. Untold sufferings as a consequence of all these calamities are broad to bear on the innocent women and child of the concerned nation. The question now arises, why place the children of the world under undeserved suffering? Its it really worth the trouble?
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We need to raise awareness
September 9, 2003 - 07:30 AM
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It has been said that when elephants are fighting, it’s the grass that suffers. The elephants of our world are fighting: America wants to rule the world, other world powers want to buy a place in the American Empire but fueling their desire for the quest of more supremacy, the African continent is being gradually torn apart by irrational wars.
All of this leaves the innocent and powerless women and children helpless and destitute. They crunch in fear of each uncertain day and fall into all kinds of suffering.
Hardly do these over zealous world leaders think of the well being of the powerless women and children crying for salvation. The time has come when more efforts should be placed on the welfare of women and children, we need to mobilize and engage these classes of people in the search for the solutions to their own problems.
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Must women and children continue to suffer?
September 17, 2003 - 06:59 AM
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Has it ever occurred to you that some people don’t have hope even for the next few hours? Does it ring a chord in your inner being that at this very moment, a child has been going without food for the last two days? How does it feel to imagine that by the close of today, more than half a million women and children would remain destitute?
There are those times when we worry over our businesses; some people go even mad when they loose a dollar from their daily income. But there are people live on less than a dollar a month for years. Each day comes with its own nightmares to these people.
Women and children especially in Africa are particularly marginalized and are the most venerable groups to all forms of societal calamities. They are the most affected when there is war, hunger, epidemics, natural catastrophes and man initiated calamities.
When we talk of illiteracy in Africa, women and children are the most hit. Families fight for their daily meager lunch than engage in paying for education and thus children stay out of school. Incases where education is considered, boys are given the priority than girls
As if this was not bad enough, the HIV/AIDS came in to bring untold suffering amongst women and children. Women and children are the most venerable to this monstrous disease that keeps on sending huge numbers of corpses in to the grave each year.
With the advent of gender balance and the winds of emancipation that have been blowing across the global village for the last decade, little has really been achieved with respect to the negative trends still in place. Looking at all these calamities, it’s just normal to think that something serious has to be done about it. Development organizations have to meet their development goals and this I think starts in investing on the women and children who have been left almost for good at the first rung of the ladder of life. That would have been enough service to humanity.
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Taking action
September 25, 2003 - 11:31 AM
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If we help just a child a month to have education, food, clothes and other basic needs, we would be doing a great service to humanity. There are people who have stuffed their wardrobes full of clothes and stuffs yet many a child go without clothing in Africa.
OFLIC has launched its operation keep the wardrobe clean by inviting people to donate their old belongings (clothes and shoes) Clothes fund that would in turn distribute these things free to needy children and women in the rural communities of Cameroon.
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Taking action
October 15, 2003 - 11:14 AM
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Originally posted by Abongta
OFLIC has launched its operation keep the wardrobe clean by inviting people to donate their old belongings (clothes and shoes) Clothes fund that would in turn distribute these things free to needy children and women in the rural communities of Cameroon.
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We need to do something, join us to wipe the tears of the eyes of our destitute African brothers and sisters.
Many live in mansions, many can afford their daily lunch yet others go without a home, without a loaf of bread and with no hope for the future. Many of such children end up in the streets, selling sex for a living yet the HIV there wiping them off this planet.
The other day as I walked down a certain street, I could see two brothers fighting over a crust of bread. I got to where they were fighting and asked what the matter was as if it was new to me. The same old and painful explanation came to my ears, “we’ve not eaten for days now and the little we have, my elder brother wants to eat it all alone.
I could see pain and hunger in their eyes; I could smell the real sent of poverty in them. I told them to a nearby restaurant and both each of them a large plate of food. At first they hesitated begging on me to rather give them the money so they could manage it for a few days than invest it in one meal. I could not hide my tears, I just repeated a phrase in the Holly Bible “Don’t worry about tomorrow for it would take care of its self”
Well I was not very sure of what I was saying but then the question lingers on; how many of us hold that same Holly Bible without knowing it carries a phrase like that? And for those who know, what are they doing?
Let’s be the candle of hope for these children, let’s join hands with OFLIC's Clothes Fund to change the hands of the clock for these children. Should a poor child in the suburbs of Cameroon smile one day because of your help, then you would have to smile in a better way too some day because of the one above.
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