Today is Children's day and we celebrate them but are we making the world more conducive for them? I mean, not all kids are like the Syrian girl in the picture who lives in the constant fear and thinks any black and long object is a gun ready to take her life. We have kids in the West African coasts slaving away on Cocoa plantations who have never tasted a bar of chocolate. We've got some locked up in terrorists cells and are being raped and (or) brain-washed into fanaticism.
Of course not all kids are refugees, slaves and hostages, we also have the over-protected kids. I mean, those kids who at 17 years are NOT ALLOWED to have independent reasoning, be responsible for anything and can't even make simple decisions on there own like how to take a bus to school but at 18 years are ALLOWED to invade a country, sojourn uncharted terrains and be equipped with the most sophisticated weapons. The scaffolding model of learning life's important skills has been robbed from them.
We can not all be UNICEF Ambassadors or Social worker but in our little space we can make a little difference in a Child's life. It may be helping protect the environment for them, teaching them a skill and what have you. In Nigeria, according to the most recent UNICEF data, Primary School enrollment is 57.6%. That means almost half of the kids don't get to see the 4-walls of a classroom. We need change, and change starts one kid at a time and their different avenues through which we can contribute.
BUT SERIOUSLY... let's show the kids what a wonderful world it can be
