This photo was taken yesterday afternoon. The local children were making a racket behind my house so I went to investigate. There were maybe 60 kids doing what they could to catch small fish and crabs in the stream. I've seen this before when the locals would look for fish to celebrate Good Friday but the reason for the fish hunt yesterday was hunger. The children are only eating once a day and the food they're eating is filling but not nutritious. Told them to come by Monday morning and we'll see what we can do for them. These are probably the same kids who are "borrowing" all our guava fruit. What are ya gonna do?
Is there any possibility that there could be a pairing of the children who lost mothers with mothers who lost children. May be a naive statement but for what it's worth I throw it our there.
ReplyDeleteHow horribly hard life is for these children. Amazing how so many people can ignore this. What would we do if this was our own country? Our neighbor's children? .... Our own children? We would never ignore this it was in Canada.
ReplyDeleteYou have a suitable environment, set up a catfish farm? They can thrive almost anywhere and are very nutrious too.
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