Just A Water Well

The ruthless savages of mutant terrorism continue to tear apart some societies; the unthinkable cruelties of evil in humanism perpetuate sufferance among children and women; the unselective warfares for civil rights relentlessly terrorise every innocent hope and life; and the mounting calamitous furies of nature's order stake unforgivingly tens of thousands more in casualties and mishaps; how many of the rest of us can and could mindfully live in true peace?

In a Madagascar village in Africa, elderly and young women beaming smiles as they gathered  around a newly built water well; attesting an ancient conception still renders a luxury that could draw a new lease of life for these villagers whose lives are no less precious; barking at an urbanite the slightest whimper of petty complaints of compromised affluence. Statistics in 2012 shows 90% of the 22 million population still live on less than USD2/- a day.
Such is one mean knowledge that rattles the timidity and vulnerability in the author, the side of reality he lives in, a side he deems extravaganza. 

Click here: Photo by Andrea Shriver and more.

Maternal Orphan Or Paternal Orphan

          A maternal orphan is a child whose mother has died; a paternal orphan is a child whose father has died. Children are the most innocent and it is the most merciless to commoditize them collateral damages. There is a devastating 130 million and above orphans, a worldwide statistics estimated by SOS Children's Villages, in 3 regions alone namely Sub-Sahara Africa, Latin America and Asia. The veracity of the statistics may be questionable to some readers, and if we may afford the statistics an inflated allowance of 30 million, in the proximity of 100 million is still staggering. In fact, I should reword worldwide statistics as regions by deprivation statistics.

          How many are roaming homeless? What trace do we have of those forgotten and abandoned? All these unrecorded children together with orphans from others countries can dreadfully ratchet up even higher the statistics. Dear readers, this is what I have read by just a few clicks on web pages, which you may have read them too.

           In Syria, President Assad continues to hold his stance. Egypt just cannot shake off the fetters of political turmoil, economic setback, and social unrest. An impasse stays between North Sudan and South Sudan after war-ravaged and multiple conflicts in Darfur, with new violence imminent. Terrorism and extremism, perpetual and unruly, disseminating fears across Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ideological, traditional, or crossing conflicts that are incendiary to Myanmar, Sri Lanka to Africa’s Nigeria. In India, rising social ills and political unchanging corrupted culture incessantly spinning grave news. Least but not last, the escalating hostile rhetoric of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, a 30 year old leader who always appear armed and mounted in photos. Alas, the list does not end here.

          I dread the statistics for children may be far worst. As the statistics was dated 2010, and, excepting North Korea, tens of thousands of lives have lost since 2010 from many countries that were and remain so riven with wars, violent conflicts, deadly clashes and martyrdoms. As is extremely disturbing the actual evil may be in the vein as the fact that the targets of infants to women are ruthlessly increasing, the punishing plights of these victimized multitudes are, unsurprisingly, considered not as pressing as our economic woes by those capable, the investors.

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Video Published on Apr 5, 2012

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KONY 2012: Part II -- Beyond Famous offers a closer look at the LRA and explores the solutions put forward by leaders of the currently-affected areas of CAR, DRC, and South Sudan, where local communities continue to live under the constant threat of LRA violence. This generation has responded to the call to make Joseph Kony famous. Now we need to dig deeper and turn awareness into informed action. That starts with sharing this film and continues with participating in Cover the Night, the advocacy and awareness event taking place worldwide on April 20th

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Journeys To School

“You watch the news?”

“Nah, every day same old story.”

“True, true.”

“Well, the globe still spinning right?”

Often lost with words but never impoverished of thoughts. Pleasant thoughts are too fleeting and not wanting of words while unpleasant ones the problems always lingering, anguishing for words. Good things, great news provide such marvelous pastimes or diversions; but bad things, bad news parallel all nothing but undesirable stress and immense grief.

Living in happiness and peace is universal given the author preferably being blind or in denial. Patting shoulder with approbation, for example a good job done, must take a split infinitive because the list of crucial issues keeps growing longer and more virulent. However we must live and let live, and that such is life, hence a true ambivalence a life.

While many are grinding out a living, perhaps some of you may find time to watch this video about the children of future.

·        Published on Mar 4, 2013

A photo exhibition launched by SIPA Press, UNESCO & Veolia Transdev, "Journeys to School" tells an inspiring story of girls' and boy's journey to school. It is not about misery and isolation -- but courage and determination.