African kids on the street

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Did anyone watch Comic Relief last night?

There was a short film about kids in Africa who live on the street. It brought tears to my eyes. There were kids who couldn't walk yet, crawling around the pavements looking for food. One child was about three walking along. He had wet himself but was just carrying on as normal. Two children were playing with each other. With a carrier bag. And so on and so on.

It's 2005 and that is allowed to happen?! We all go on about football and how important it is to us, but sometimes I think we should all take a step back and look at what's going on around us. I think it's time for me to change my signature.....

[blobbyblob]

Such is life. Haves and have nots. You dont have to travel to Africa to see it either. Just grab a camera and walk about Dublin for a day. Have a nice editing team and heah presto. Africa on your doorstep.

The only thing is that real life doesnt have a slow moving backing track to bring a tear to your eye or to make you focus on other peoples misfortune so most of us just walk on by without a glance as Im sure their kit and kin do in Africa.

As a world, we've become immune to the less fortunate. We classify them, ostracise them and look down upon them rather than giving them a leg up. And so it will go on. Passed down from generation to generation. Such is life.

[Green Tribe]

I also watched some of comic relief. It always makes me sad and makes my blood boil when i see the crap that is going on in Africa. I hope now that the richer world will help in some way to ease debt repayments etc.

However, Africa is a beautiful continent which i hope to see one day, but many of its countries have evil corrupt leaders/govts. Rid of civil wars/corrupt leaders/govts it could, with the help of the richer world ease itself from poverty, famine and unemployment and benefit from its plentiful natural resources, tourism and exports.

Maybe too optimistic, but i think it is possible, but we need the help from every developed country and the corrupted greedy feckers who lead some of these countries should be removed, but how?? What is happening in Sudan and Zimbabwe for a start is unacceptable. I will end here............. :mad:

[A face]

But wont globalisation sort all this out ??

I mean, these boys (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/G8meeting.jpg) are working round the clock for the poor little mites, afterall free trade (http://www.workerscenter.org/docs/james_freetrade02.php) is the job, what could possibly be wrong with it ?? :eek: