Thursday, January 28, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, i saw this ACS school boy, probably 9 or 10 years old, carrying his blue Crumpler bag walking alone. He wears spectacles and has braces across his teeth. (looks cute!) I think what he's wearing and carrying are easily worth more than $200??!! =) My green Crumpler without stripes already cost $100!! (Crumpler users will know...)
I can't help but feel really grateful, and a million times thankful, that i was born in no where else in the world but Singapore. Staring at the boy, i remembered at his age, i was carrying a "brand-less" bag to school. My mother bought it for me near the market. (LOL)
To be honest, i think Singaporean kids are really fortunate...sometimes too pampered. (i mean...it's true right?!) But the irony is...they don't even realize. Instead of appreciating what they have, they sometimes focus more on getting what they don't have, and feel the world owe them something.
I was looking at some pictures of children in poverty. Really heart-breaking to see the reality...
The reality that they are not having an enjoyable childhood that every child deserve...
The reality that we are wasting our food when someone across the globe has to search for food in the garbage...
The reality that while kids pester their parents for PSP and Wii, kids at the other end of the world are simply wanting a shelter above their heads...
The reality that while teens complain and grumble about their parents, some poor kids across the globe don't even know who are their parents...
A poor Afghan child collects foot from garbage in Kabul.
Children in India studying (no tables n chairs)
Mongolian children working for their survival
Togo Children diligently helping their mother do the laundry in the river.
Children in Uganda orphanage
The number of hungry children in Africa will increase by 3.3 million by 2025 if current policy and investment trends continue, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants
Haiti is a Third World country. Conditions are primitive, poverty is rampant and security is never guaranteed.
Children in Cambodia are suffering quietly. There is no ballooning bellies or skeletal babies shown on our TV-screens. Still, Cambodia is one of the worst countries in the world to grow up in. And one of every eight children never survive past their fifth birthday.
Children in Cambodia
I think in life, whether we are children or adults, we ought to learn to be grateful for all that we have. We should always be thankful and count our blessings. Happiness comes when we learn to be contented. While being contented, we must never lose the desire to improve, and advance. We got to balance both.
And let's earn lots of money to help these kids in poverty. 'Cause they don't deserve this..
=)
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