WAKE UP CALL

      We all know the answer to the question ‘who is a child?’  Who would say he/she does not know who a child is, and so I ask, ‘if we all know who a child is, then BRAYNNNNNNNNNK! . . . WHY?’

•  Woman burns girl’s thighs with hot iron  

                            

•   Chinese stepmother whips & kicks a toddler for wetting herself

                           

      

• Stepmother drowns her stepchild because husband refused to buy her a  dress. 

• 25year old man rapes an 8year old girl.

• Man molests a little boy and sets him ablaze.

• Man sells off his son to herbalist for three hundred thousand naira. 

• Woman kills her own new born child because he looked like her ex-boyfriend. 

• Baby abandoned on the street of Lagos for six hours, eventually dies as no one does anything but  stare and take pictures of the crying baby . . . . 

     And it goes on and on, in an endless list. When I read these reports, sometimes I weep, sometimes I get angry and want to strangle somebody, sometimes I feel numb and other times I feel nothing. I know many feel the same way I do, but in the midst of the various feelings, I ask myself ‘what are you doing, it doesn’t just end in feeling sad, angry or numb?’

     The cliché ‘our children are the leaders of tomorrow,’ is very true indeed, but I fear there will be no leaders of tomorrow for our world, because we have rejected, trampled on, crushed, ground with our teeth and spat out our tomorrow without a second thought.

     We all; the soldier, the teacher, the lawyer, the clergies, the social worker, the mailman, the accountant, the entertainer, the painter, the writer, the driver, the professor, the baker, the designer, the pilot . . . have a universal duty, a duty we have refused to live up to.

     This is a WAKE UP CALL to every one of us. Our children are our light, our future, we do not destroy our future, we nurture and build our future.

The Decision and Action You Take;

To report that child in danger of being killed from physical or sexual abuse,

To save five dollar, pounds, euro, naira . . . to feed a hungry child out there,

To stay and not abandon the child that came from a one night stand even though you’re not ready, even though he/she has leukemia or batten disease,

To cross one child every day,

To sign a ‘save the child petition,’

To speak for a child everyday on Facebook, Twitter, Pin interest, Google+,

To talk to that child on the wrong path,

To organize a fund raiser for a child,

To take one child off the street,

To encourage the child with self-esteem issues,

To smile at the child on the porch waiting and hoping his mommy or her daddy will one day come back—

     These decisions matter and how you do it matters.

#ourchildrenourtomorrow.