I see them sleeping on hard core cement, with only a glue bottle tight in the hand and just cardboard rapped around them.
Its winter in South Africa, maybe soon to be but point of the matter is, its cold, experiencing very low temperatures. Even to this day there are billions of street children out there suffering, hungry, cold, scattered and just homeless. Winter time comes we all reach for our wear drops, and grab our best fur coats, designer names, I'm taking Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada, Aldo, you name it, but like really, when there are people out there suffering, who dont even have a Pep jersey to put on, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Firsly this topic was inspired by Gabi whom I have on twitter, she posted a photo with street kids just sleeping outside, rapped in what looked like cardboard. It got to me that, we in our warm homes, drinking coffee, next to a heater watching MTVbase when all the while someone is preparing to sleep, not on a "Seally" bed but on the ground, like on a paving outside, under a bridge, only to rap him/herself with a thin layered blanket or just cardboard , question yourself, is it human of us?
Most of us have the ability to help, but we don't, some of us just help for the publicity, as in we want to be seen giving a hand to the poor when all we want is just to better our reputation. Imagine how hard it is to go to bed hungry, and not in a good mood, that sucks! now imagine that topped by you sleeping under a bridge with trucks passing by, blowing wind at you and you just have a cardboard to cover yourself with no BlackBerry in your hand but a bottle of glue just to keep you company.
I'm not trying to put anyone down or sad but simply think about these situations, how people suffer compared to you, having a bad day just because you ran out of milk, think about the situations of this world, they are chlidren sleeping on the pavements, its not fair. Stop blaiming the government, YOU do something, forget about your president, forget who you voted for, get up and do something, wouldn't you want help if you were in that situation, DO SOMETHING!!!
If blog sites want to blog about gossip, the latest iPhone and which celebs are in love, I believe serious issues first, gossip later.
Do something for your community, just landing a helping hand helps a lot, try it.
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Nice read
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