tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832566911947880918.post6306916822930721762..comments2023-05-06T16:47:16.117+02:00Comments on 365 Days of Activism: We look with our Eyes yet to SEE is to UNDERSTAND.Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06340267061387518816noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832566911947880918.post-74898750543224218382009-01-16T12:36:00.000+02:002009-01-16T12:36:00.000+02:00i agree with Paul and Gerald. People are not able ...i agree with Paul and Gerald. People are not able to see the truth and are not seeing children as children. I somehow feel that it is just the effort you have to make to just make their life better as everyone else.<BR/><BR/>People are becoming so used to seeing children on street , employed and harassed that now they just go blind eye. it is now just normal day thing for them. <BR/><BR/>Abha <BR/>Volunteer <BR/>Global March Against Child LabourAbhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07939288515117743079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832566911947880918.post-27116479017454771682009-01-16T09:44:00.000+02:002009-01-16T09:44:00.000+02:00Great point Gerald, and Paul i think you have hit ...Great point Gerald, and Paul i think you have hit the nail on the head! a while back i had a dog and when i had to move out of that house quickly, i had to find a new home for the dog because my new flat did not allow animals. i had to move out of the old place in the meantime, and the dog had to stay at the empty house, alone for less than 24 hours. within that time someone reported an "abandoned dog" and the SPCA somehow got my number and were calling me threatening to take the dog from me because i had abondoned it. around that same very time i had five children i was trying to find placement for with no luck what-so-ever! it was a REAL eye opener!!!!Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06340267061387518816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832566911947880918.post-88925124346378715802009-01-16T09:28:00.000+02:002009-01-16T09:28:00.000+02:00The problem for me is what business, government, t...The problem for me is what business, government, the security companies and even a lot of the public see when they look at a child on the street. Do they see the potential of their child being there, Do they see a black child, a coloured child, a white child, do they see a child at all? I think we have lost the ability to see children as children, they are seen as a nusance, a hinderance to tourism, bad for business, a plague, an irritant, something to be removed, not of our concern.<BR/><BR/>I think we give more attention to the baboons of Cape Town roaming our streets than we do the children. If a baboon leaves his troop and crosses into a suburb the radio stations get onto the story, the community helps to track the animal, the police are called in and the animal is gentle returned to its troop by experts, found a new home or carefully rehabilitated. Street Kids are not seen, who cares, who sees them, who feels concern for them, who will gentle parent them.Monshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01252683401032918313noreply@blogger.com