affrican children need pencils

[FlashCadillac]

talking to my mate who has been a volanteer teacher in africa for the last 12 months

 

talking to him about buying a mk2 fez and i said im going to have to out a cd player in it and some louder speaker

 

he say.... you just cant have a car can you, you cant just leave it along... there are children in africa who dont have pencills and you want to waste money on crap like that

 

 

pfff

[orionmojo]

the round ones to him. if he's so concerned why isn't he over there now? its your money dude, do with it what you want, you earned it. think yourself lucky you were born where you are though, i donate mony to a few different charaties, and that gives me the right to tll people to fook right off whn they try and ram shit like that down my throat. live aid raisd over £140 million in 1985, and not on penny of that reached the famine, it was all tied up in political shite, thats truly shocking.

[louie bagel]

with the spare change from your sound system buy him some pencils

 

then tell him to do one

[over_head_cam]

African children lol

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK6r2SrdVWs

[GT_Jim]

charity begins at home - and if theres a drive at this home with a fez on it thats fair game

[Vista]

Whilst your mates statement was pretty uncalled for, the plight of Children in some parts of Africa is heart rending. Pens and pencils are a currency there that the children beg for as most of them are desperate to get to school

 

School fees can be as little as £2 or £3 a term and still children don't get to school because their parents haven't the money to pay for all of the children they have. It's easy to say have less children then, but there are no welfare systems or pension schemes to look after the average African when he is old. They rely on having large families so that there is enough young people to care for the elders. Girls are almost always the ones that are deprived of education, partly because families live in groups a girl will therefore eventually marry and join someone elses group. But a son stays within the family and when he marries the family size increases.

 

In conflict zones such as Somalia and until a few years ago Sierra Leone, young boys are/were forced into slavery and / or used as Child soldiers. In late 2000 I and some others from my ship were involved in building a school for some of the orphans of the Sierra Leone Conflict, I remember trying to talk to a severely traumatised 13 year old who'd been forced to execute his parents with an AK47, I doubt his life will ever be normal again.

 

Me I thank my lucky stars that by an accident of fate I was born here, a country where even the poor will never starve or go without health care.