When Children Pray

When Children Pray

Children only kneel when some incident causes great fear
Children only cry when they feel alone and threatened
Children live by a strong faith that is scare these days
Children will bare any type of pain if they feel it will ease the hate
And those times when children pray those times are when god can do nothing but, obey
Children the ask for happiness and they are the light of day
Yet we let millions of these treasures starve for attention

Children look at war but, look away
Its times like these when children prayers save the day
In this world of lost souls what more could one wish for than just pure hope
They are bright as stars that glitter
And all they shed is grace
With sticky fingers from exploring the juices mother earth bares
And their innocence laying bare
And simple truths spew from their rosy lips
Children pray but only when they can feel the end is near
And their love is a sudden rush that only causes forgiveness
Perfect smiles they wear upon their face
And children never hold any disgrace

Light shallow dreams of making the world a better place
When children kneel that is for which they will pray
Children only pray when in doubt
And their voices portray light fears
All a child wants to see is the new day break
And when that thought is threatened children kneel and pray

Poem by:
Victoria Martinez

Kevin Carter's famous photo of Sudanese poor girl

In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. (The parents of the girl were busy taking food from the same UN plane Carter took to Ayod).

The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993 as ‘metaphor for Africa’s despair’. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run an unusual special editor’s note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown. Journalists in the Sudan were told not to touch the famine victims, because of the risk of transmitting disease, but Carter came under criticism for not helping the girl. ”The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene,” read one editorial.

Carter eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo, but he couldn’t enjoy it. “I’m really, really sorry I didn’t pick the child up,” he confided in a friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed, and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s fate, he committed suicide three months later.

source:

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com

925 million hungry people in 2010

925 million hungry people in 2010. Is that real???
Check this out...

925 million people is 13.6 percent of the estimated world population of 6.8 billion. Nearly all of the undernourished are in developing countries. 

In round numbers there are 7 billion people in the world. Thus, with an estimated 925 million hungry people in the world, 13.1 percent, or almost 1 in 7 people are hungry.

Children are the most visible victims of undernutrition.  Children who are poorly nourished suffer up to 160 days of illness each year. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of the 10.9 million child deaths each year--five million deaths.  Undernutrition magnifies the effect of every disease, including measles and malaria. The estimated proportions of deaths in which undernutrition is an underlying cause are roughly similar for diarrhea (61%), malaria (57%), pneumonia (52%), and measles (45%) (Black 2003, Bryce 2005). Malnutrition can also be caused by diseases, such as the diseases that cause diarrhea, by reducing the body's ability to convert food into usable nutrients. 

Source:
worldhunger.org

Child hunger: Shame on us

Child hunger: Shame on us

Aid agency Save the Children has launched a report and survey examining what the world's hungriest children are eating and the tough choices parents are making amid rising food prices.

"The issue with stunting is that if it happens in the first two years of your life, it's very, very difficult to repair and reverse that. It tends to be irreparable in most of these situations. If we can focus efforts on that 1,000-day window from conception until the second birthday, we will have a transformational impact."

- Brendan Cox, the director of policy and advocacy for Save the Children



The report entitled A life free from hunger says 300 children are dying of malnutrition each hour, totaling 2.6 million every year.

It also looks at the lost potential of 170 million children who are physically and mentally stunted and therefore set to earn 20 per cent less than their healthier counterparts.

A year of record food prices has forced millions of parents in the developing world to cut back on food for their children, says the agency.

The survey was conducted with families in India, Bangladesh, Peru, Pakistan and Nigeria.

One-in-six parents said their children were abandoning school to help out by working for food.

"The emphasis in the developed world has been on too much food, going by the debates on the European Union's common agricultural policy. Not so long ago we were worrying about wine lakes, cereal mountains and milk lakes, and they were just an artefact of a very distorted system."

- Richard Tiffin, the director of the Centre for Food Security at the University of Reading

Perhaps the most disturbing part of the report is that there are numerous viable solutions to this crisis that are not being exercised because of failed public policy and chronic under-investment.

Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, one of the countries surveyed, describes chronic malnutrition as the country's greatest shame.

What or who is responsible for this tragedy? Is food aid the solution? Or are there other ways of tackling child malnutrition? And what is at stake for the world's children if the crisis continues? What would it take to save a starving generation?

Source:
Al-Jazeera

Baby dumping: why? why? why?

Baby dumping...

Little poor baby
poor baby...so poor
why these innocent baby dumped
why?
why?
why?
tell me how did you do that???
tell me why did you do that???
do tell me...tell me why????
please no more baby dumping
please no more...
no more.

So inhuman...
Satanic..
poor little baby.
you give no chance for the little baby
even a chance to see the world...
Fuck baby dumpers...
you're killers...most evil.
please stop...
stop baby dumping...o god.

o poor baby..
I hope GOD can forgive us,
and that you can do.
o poor baby...
To bring you back there is nothing I wouldn't do.

Please stop this...
please stop this...
no more baby dumping...

Video: Poor People

Video of poor people

My friends, let this one come to you as a SUPRISE..

But it's real...

have them living around us and in our neighbourhood today...

we can change it with prayers and...

always lending a helping hand to those in need..

Don't keep this video yourself...

forward it to your friends, so our friend and all people

thank nature for food and water that they already have...

10 facts on child abuse

10 Facts about child abuse

1. Five children die everday as result of child abuse.Three of them were under the age of 4.
2. In 2008, one out of every 601.4 children were victims of physical abuse, with parents of victims accounting for almost 80.1% of abusers.
3. For every incident of child abuse or neglect that gets reported, it’s estimated that two others go unreported.
4. Physical abuse accounts for 17.8% of documented child abuse cases each year.  
5. It is estimated that between 60-85% of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates.
6. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds...how many in a day??? You count it...
7. 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way; 68% are abused by family members.
8. Abused children are more likely to abuse alcohol and become addicted to drugs, and one third will later abuse their own children.
9. Every month, at least 100 babies are born to drug-using mothers. 
10. Of kids who have a parent who uses drugs, one in 13 is physically abused regularly.

Save the Children

Save The Children

Save the Children

Look around you and what do you see

Death, destruction, and misery.

It is not much that they ask

It is gods will and part of our task.

Save the children and let them be free

To live their lives as we.

Give them hope- don’t let them despair

Give them a helping hand and show them that we care.

As their elders we are supposed to teach them what’s right.

Give up your arms- give up the fight.

For when we are gone the problems will still be there

Affection and love is still very dear.

Save the children and let them see

That they no longer have to live in the worlds misery.

Hungry for food and hungry for love

The bird of peace is the snow white dove.

They are hiding in mountaintops and trembling with fear

Not seeing love and showing no tears.

They learn to live in this country torn apart

And in the process they lose their heart.

Is this the way we want our children to be

Grownups fighting and butchering one another

Mother, wife, sister, and brother.

Save the children is all god asks

by: Louis Rams

source: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/save-the-children-3/

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Poverty in Malaysia: Poor people in Malaysia society

Poor people of Malaysia...

Poor family

Is this a house or chicken coop???

Poor fisherman

Sabahan old woman living in her hut

This is just a few...there's still a lot out there...blame those fucking rich people...

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When the Children Cry

When The Children Cry - (Song Lyrics)

Little child
cry your crying eyes
how can I explain
the fear you feel inside

cause you were born
into this evil world
where man is killing man
and no one knows just why

what we have become
just look what we have done
all that we destroyed
you must build again

when the children cry
let them know we tried
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins

little child
you must show the way
to a better day
for all the young

cause you were born
for all the world to see
that we all can live
with love and peace

no more presidents
and all the wars will end
one united world
under god

when the children cry
let them know we tried
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins

what we have become
just look what we have done
all that we destroyed
you must build again

no more presidents
and all the wars will end
one united world
under god

when the children cry
let them know we tried
when the children fight
let them know it ain't right

when the children pray
let them know the way
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins


When the Children Cry
By White Lion 




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Poverty: Children suffered more than anyone

The number

a) 30 vs 6,000,000,000 vs 1 

"More than 30 per cent of children in developing countries – about 600 million – live on less than US $1 a day."

b) 3.6 vs 5

"Every 3.6 seconds one person dies of starvation. Usually it is a child under the age of 5."

c) 100,000,000

"One than 1 billion children are severely deprived of at least one of the essential goods and services they require to survive, grow and develop."

d) 13,000,000 vs 17 vs 39

"Nearly 13 million children in the United States—17% of all children—live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, 39% of children live in low-income families."

e) 23,650,000

"At the end of 2007, China had 23.65 million Children living below the poverty line."

Facts

Poverty hits children hardest. Most of the people living in poverty are children. Poverty denies children their rights. It weakens a child's protective environment, as much abuse and exploitation of children is linked to widespread and deeply entrenched poverty. It blights their lives with ill health, malnutrition, and impaired physical and mental development. It saps their energy and undermines their confidence in the future. No society has ever seen a broad-based reduction in poverty without major and sustained investments in the rights of its people to health, nutrition and basic education.

143 million children under five in the developing world continue to suffer from inadequate nutrition. The highest numbers are in south Asia, where over half the under-fives (54%) were underweight in 1990, but there is progress in this region, with the proportion falling to 46% by 2006. Asia, the second poorest part of the globe, has seen a drop from 41.1% living below the poverty line to 29.5% by 2004. However there have been no such gains in sub-Saharan Africa. If progress continues to be this slow and patchy, the 2015 target will be missed by a margin of 30 million children.

God be with you always. Amen...

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Poor street kids

OMG!!!

What is in our world today...these poor street kids were left unattended, sleep on the street just like the stray dogs did...how could these happen in our civilized world of today??? They're also human...pity...

they're just little kids...very-very poor kids...where are we???

God help us...

The Poor Children

~The Poor Children~

Take heed of this small child of earth;

He is great; he hath in him God most high.

Children before their fleshy birth

Are lights alive in the blue sky.

In our light bitter world of wrong

They come; God gives us them awhile.

His speech is in their stammering tongue,

And his forgiveness in their smile.

Their sweet light rests upon our eyes.

Alas! Their right to joy is plain.

If they are hungry Paradise

Weeps, and, if cold, Heaven thrills with pain.

The want that saps their sinless flower

Speaks judgment on sin's ministers.

Man holds an angel in his power.

Ah! Deep in Heaven what thunder stirs.

When God seeks out these tender things

Whom in the shadow where we sleep

He sends us clothed about with wings,

And finds them ragged babes that weep!

The poet,

Victor Marie Hugo

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