A prayer for the poor children

A prayer for the poor children

Dear Lord, We come to you today to offer up the children that we serve. We place them in your hands Father and we ask you to care for them. Please comfort them and provide the healing that they need to help them recover from the traumas that these innocent young children have had to endure: for those who have suffered from hunger, thirst, and the pains of malnutrition, for those who have had to live without adequate housing, lack of clothing, and no shoes, for those who have had to suffer through the experiences of abuse, neglect, abandonment or the death of one or both parents.

Please ensure that their basic needs are met so they are able to continue to develop physically, mentally, and emotionally. Show them your mercy and invite them into your arms. Provide for them a parental relationship where they can talk to you and trust in you. Fill them with your love and grant them peace and security. Give them hope for a bright future and bless them with the opportunities of education and guidance to lead them towards that future.

We ask you Lord to please care for these and all the children of the world. Bless them and those who have the responsibilities of caring for them. Protect their vulnerable and innocent lives and allow for them to experience the joy and carefree happiness of childhood.We place their lives in your hands Lord, in the name of your son Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Source:
foodforthepoor.blogspot.com

Prayer for the poor people

A prayer for the poor people

There is nothing we can do for the poor people all around the world. But at least we could say a prayer for these poor people. Here is a prayer we can say for the poor people:

Lord, I know that you have given me so much. You provide a roof over my head. You provide me with an abundance of food on my table. I have friends and the opportunity to get an education. I have conveniences like computers, iPods, and iPads. You have blessed me in my life with so many things that I don't even know. How you keep me safe, how you protect those I love, how you give me an opportunity every single day to love you. I cannot express enough how grateful I am for these things. I do not know if I could handle any less, but I do know that you would be there beside me to give me strength just as you do now.

But Lord, there are so many other people who have so much less than I do. There are those that have no idea what life is like outside of depravity. There are those living every night on the streets, faced with dangers beyond my imagination. There are scary threats that face them every day, and every day is a struggle for them to live. There are those with health and psychological issues that cannot live normally that just need your protection. There are people that cannot seem to find their way through life that may not know how to hear you, but you can be there with them anyhow.

And Lord, I know there are people around the world starving. There isn't enough food to always go around. Water is contaminated and a commodity that some areas on the earth do not have. There are children dying every day from starvation. And there are those facing daily abuse from those they love or look up to. There are damages done to people every day psychologically, emotionally, and physically. There are girls oppressed in countries where they cannot study to grow out of their oppression. There are places where an education is such a privilege a majority of people never have the opportunity to learn. There are so many underprivileged people in the world, and I lift them all up to you.

I ask you, Lord, to intervene in these cases. I know that you have a plan, and I don't know what that plan is or why these bad things happen, but you say that the poor in spirit will inherit the kingdom of heaven. I pray that you will find a place for those that live thier lives underprivileged and suffering. I also pray, Lord, that you always give me a heart for those who have less, so that I always feel a need to do your work here. I pray that I can life those up and touch lives that need me.

In Your name, Amen.

Poor child

Poor Child Poem
This is a wonderful poor child poem.

Poor Child

I was a child

Living in this world of poverty

A world, where my innocence was taken

A world, full of misery and hungry

What is my future?

What is meant for me?

Where are my rights?

Where am I supposed to be?

Do you hear my voice?

Do you see my soul?

Can't you see me fighting?

Struggling for a life that I don't know

Can you extend your arms

Hug me for a while

I needed that now

Before closing my eyes and die

Poor child poem by:

Heidee Villanueva Manago

Source:

 www.poemhunter.com

God always be with you child....

Alone poem

Alone Poem

A Lonely Soul

© Katyana M. Destin

I am Just a lonely soul

Can anyone hear me?

Is anyone out there?

I have nowhere else to go

Escaping from all the misery

And from all the trouble that had been caused

I feel as if my life just took a sudden pause

Regretting for my regrets

Feeling that I may just don’t belong

Feeling that the path I made was wrong

I ask god to forgive me for all my sins

And all the ways that I have been

Just look it from the way I see

So I am talking for anyone out there

Can anyone here me?

Source: A Lonely Soul, Alone Poem

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I love you poem

This is a lovely poem
I Love You Poem

I Love You

© Dave Lawrie

I never really knew you

you were just another friend

But when I got to know you

I let my heart unbend

I couldn't help past memories

That would only make me cry

I had to forget my first love

And give another try

So I've fallen in love with you

And I'll never let you go

I love you more than anyone

I just had to let you know

My feelings for you will never change

Just know my feelings are true

Just remember this one thing

I will always love you

Source: Falling In Love With You Poem, I Love

www.FamilyFriendPoems.com

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...