Cause of the Week: Invisible Children
Okay everyone, it's time for another "Cause of the Week"! If anyone actually pays attention to my journal, you'll know that I did this during fall last year for Banned Books Week, and, straight from Megan-the-Activist, I have a new cause for you all. This means I do a post everyday on it, so that maybe you'll get so annoyed you'll actually take the time to read it.
INVISIBLE CHILDREN
We all hear about the terrible things that go on in other countries, and somehow we still manage to consider ourselves and our lives in more trauma than anyone else's. Right now there are children in Norther Uganda who are being stolen from their homes in the middle of the night, taken into "The Bush" by militia, and forced to either kill or be killed as they watch their friends die around them. Attempted escape is punishable by painful public death, and most of these children don't know better as they're between the ages of 5 and 12.
What were you doing at six years old? Playing hide-and-go-seek with your cousins? Watching Disney movies and eating goldfish? Worrying about whether you'd get dessert that night or not? I'm not blaming you; after all, that's what children are supposed to be doing. Children deserve the right to play, the right to be happy, the right to be safe.
Our government can only do so much - it's in OUR hands now.
Hopefully I'll be able to get a DVD soon and you'll all be able to see what I'm talking about. Tomorrow's entry will address the children called "night commuters", and what they must do each night to protect themselves from a likely rebel invasion.
Thanks for caring.
-Megs
For more information go to www.invisiblechildren.com
INVISIBLE CHILDREN
We all hear about the terrible things that go on in other countries, and somehow we still manage to consider ourselves and our lives in more trauma than anyone else's. Right now there are children in Norther Uganda who are being stolen from their homes in the middle of the night, taken into "The Bush" by militia, and forced to either kill or be killed as they watch their friends die around them. Attempted escape is punishable by painful public death, and most of these children don't know better as they're between the ages of 5 and 12.
What were you doing at six years old? Playing hide-and-go-seek with your cousins? Watching Disney movies and eating goldfish? Worrying about whether you'd get dessert that night or not? I'm not blaming you; after all, that's what children are supposed to be doing. Children deserve the right to play, the right to be happy, the right to be safe.
Our government can only do so much - it's in OUR hands now.
Hopefully I'll be able to get a DVD soon and you'll all be able to see what I'm talking about. Tomorrow's entry will address the children called "night commuters", and what they must do each night to protect themselves from a likely rebel invasion.
Thanks for caring.
-Megs
For more information go to www.invisiblechildren.com