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Aude Sapere: Five and counting ...
Excerpt from a 2007 IRIN report:
"Experts estimate that there are 250,000-300,000 children living and working on the streets [in Kenya], with more than 60,000 of them in Nairobi. Kisumu, on Lake Victoria, and Mombasa, on the coast, also have large populations of street children ... Street children face endless cruelties. Their rights have been violated many times by the adults who were supposed to protect them. In many cases these children are subject to sexual exploitation in return for food or clothes. Often, police detain and beat them without reason.
In order to survive on the streets, young people often beg, carry luggage, or clean business premises and vehicles. Others earn some money by collecting waste paper, bottles, and metals for recycling. The children sometimes assist the city council cleaners in sweeping and collecting garbage.
Girls are forced to resort to prostitution in order to get clothes or food. According to a 2004 report from The Cradle and The Undugu Society, they earn as little as 10 or 20 KSH ($0.30-0.50) for each client."
Maybe you're tired of hearing such dire and depressing reports about situations in countries that maybe you've never visited. And maybe I'm not helping the situation, posting stories about hunger in America or street children in Kenya. But my point of sharing these stories isn't to shine light on all that's wrong with the world. My hope is that all of us will dare to know the lives of others, to applaud the good work that so many generous hands are completing, and maybe just maybe, to understand that the problems we face aren't insurmountable, impossible nor infinite.
Those of you who follow my blog know by now that I have been working on a campaign to raise $20,000 in 30 days for a small organization called One Home Many Hopes. One Home Many Hopes rescues girls from the streets of Kenya - girls who fit the description in the above report. I'm thrilled to report that we're on track to exceed our financial goal! But, sadly, we are falling extremely short of our goal to reach 1,000 donors.
Only five days remain for us to find 500 people to give $10.
And so I ask, one more time, that you take a few minutes to give $10. And then, tell five more friends to give their $10. You're not giving for me. And you're not asking for yourself. You're giving and you're asking for 35 little girls who otherwise would be selling their bodies for fifty cents on the street. Tonight, however, those girls will eat a warm dinner, sleep in a cozy bed, and live how children ought to live.
Do it.
Dare to know.
And dare to fight back against the injustices that appall us but do not overcome us!
"Experts estimate that there are 250,000-300,000 children living and working on the streets [in Kenya], with more than 60,000 of them in Nairobi. Kisumu, on Lake Victoria, and Mombasa, on the coast, also have large populations of street children ... Street children face endless cruelties. Their rights have been violated many times by the adults who were supposed to protect them. In many cases these children are subject to sexual exploitation in return for food or clothes. Often, police detain and beat them without reason.
In order to survive on the streets, young people often beg, carry luggage, or clean business premises and vehicles. Others earn some money by collecting waste paper, bottles, and metals for recycling. The children sometimes assist the city council cleaners in sweeping and collecting garbage.
Girls are forced to resort to prostitution in order to get clothes or food. According to a 2004 report from The Cradle and The Undugu Society, they earn as little as 10 or 20 KSH ($0.30-0.50) for each client."
Maybe you're tired of hearing such dire and depressing reports about situations in countries that maybe you've never visited. And maybe I'm not helping the situation, posting stories about hunger in America or street children in Kenya. But my point of sharing these stories isn't to shine light on all that's wrong with the world. My hope is that all of us will dare to know the lives of others, to applaud the good work that so many generous hands are completing, and maybe just maybe, to understand that the problems we face aren't insurmountable, impossible nor infinite.
Those of you who follow my blog know by now that I have been working on a campaign to raise $20,000 in 30 days for a small organization called One Home Many Hopes. One Home Many Hopes rescues girls from the streets of Kenya - girls who fit the description in the above report. I'm thrilled to report that we're on track to exceed our financial goal! But, sadly, we are falling extremely short of our goal to reach 1,000 donors.
Only five days remain for us to find 500 people to give $10.
And so I ask, one more time, that you take a few minutes to give $10. And then, tell five more friends to give their $10. You're not giving for me. And you're not asking for yourself. You're giving and you're asking for 35 little girls who otherwise would be selling their bodies for fifty cents on the street. Tonight, however, those girls will eat a warm dinner, sleep in a cozy bed, and live how children ought to live.
Do it.
Dare to know.
And dare to fight back against the injustices that appall us but do not overcome us!
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Comment by David Collin on November 22, 2008 at 12:01pm -
thanks for letting us know. Seems a good cause.
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