Support for a Vulnerable Child; £65
Reach out your arms and watch them telescope, stretching like rubberised tendrils as you give a child on the other side of the world a hug!
I am seriously considering foster parenting - maybe a couple of years in the future, not right now. It seems bizarre to me that there seem to be more children around than love available.
Plenty of them are right here in our bloated and affluent society, some are in other places where their societies have been so pillaged, damaged and crushed that they are in a position to be even more vulnerable than our children in the richer west - and some children here have less than nothing.
Child Soldiers are an example. We don't hear that much about them. Why? Surely everyone is outraged by this - or are we just finding it easier to ignore it? Probably. We shouldn't though, should we. It's just so easy to let your brain bury stuff, then you read the same grim statistics and connect the numbers again with humans. There must be some way to help - even in a small way.
Over 300,000 children are being used as soldiers - many of them haven't yet seen their 10th birthday - by governments as well as by guerilla groups. They're small and light - easily intimidated and bullied as well as being easier than adults are to condition into the mindset of a 'killing machine'. Some are supplied with drugs and alcohol to keep them complient. Some are abducted and forced into beoming solders. Others drift into it or are driven in by poverty, abuse or extreme alienation. AK47s are light enough for kids to carry, and you can pick one up for £10-15 (about 20 USA dollars) in some countries - or they could find themselves working in other areas of soldiery; spies, messengers, sentries, porters, servants - even objects upon which other fighters can vent their sexual frustrations and desires.
By giving me this present you'll be giving me a little something of the privelages of serving children as a foster-carer; to give care, love and support to a child who is vulnerable and hurting. To give a chance to play and laugh to a child who knows only grind and sadness, To give developmental and educational opportunities to a child who may have thought they had no future.
[CAFOD World Gifts, www.worldgifts.cafod.org.uk ]
I am seriously considering foster parenting - maybe a couple of years in the future, not right now. It seems bizarre to me that there seem to be more children around than love available.Plenty of them are right here in our bloated and affluent society, some are in other places where their societies have been so pillaged, damaged and crushed that they are in a position to be even more vulnerable than our children in the richer west - and some children here have less than nothing.
Child Soldiers are an example. We don't hear that much about them. Why? Surely everyone is outraged by this - or are we just finding it easier to ignore it? Probably. We shouldn't though, should we. It's just so easy to let your brain bury stuff, then you read the same grim statistics and connect the numbers again with humans. There must be some way to help - even in a small way.
Over 300,000 children are being used as soldiers - many of them haven't yet seen their 10th birthday - by governments as well as by guerilla groups. They're small and light - easily intimidated and bullied as well as being easier than adults are to condition into the mindset of a 'killing machine'. Some are supplied with drugs and alcohol to keep them complient. Some are abducted and forced into beoming solders. Others drift into it or are driven in by poverty, abuse or extreme alienation. AK47s are light enough for kids to carry, and you can pick one up for £10-15 (about 20 USA dollars) in some countries - or they could find themselves working in other areas of soldiery; spies, messengers, sentries, porters, servants - even objects upon which other fighters can vent their sexual frustrations and desires.
By giving me this present you'll be giving me a little something of the privelages of serving children as a foster-carer; to give care, love and support to a child who is vulnerable and hurting. To give a chance to play and laugh to a child who knows only grind and sadness, To give developmental and educational opportunities to a child who may have thought they had no future.
[CAFOD World Gifts, www.worldgifts.cafod.org.uk ]
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