Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Making the Invisible, Visible: The first step to Peace




Human Trafficking is all around they world. There are million of women, children and men Domestic Workers. Some of them are sent to countries and are told that they will get a good job. When they get to the country they get something totally unexpected. Some of these Domestic Workers don't deserve to live under these hard conditions. Everyone has the rights to Freedom and Peace. Everyone should be treated equally. These Domestic Workers cannot be treated like slaves.

This is something that everyone should care about and everyone should take action on. If everyone did take action on this than there is a very high chance of slavery stopping. There should be more people helping the community that is daily trying to prevent this from happening. This has a really big impact on the slaves, since this is happening to them. This will also impact the people that are doing this like the employee's. They are the ones that are abusing them and never paying them most of the time. 

The main surprise that I have encountered in my research is that almost all of these slaves get abused everyday of their lives by their employee's. Some of these workers they don't even get paid. Some of them don't even get anything to eat. At least if they were to get paid they could go get some food for their selfs. These employee's make the workers work so hard, some of them even hurt their workers and make them work even more.

Learning about all these issues makes me want to cry sometimes because of the pain and torture the workers go through everyday. Thinking about all this makes me feel bad because of all the opportunities I have and the good life I have. If everyone gathers and makes a plan to stop this issue than definitely this will stop, but everyone has to really put their heart and soul to this.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

STOP WORLD POVERTY!

What about now- Daughtry

World poverty. Something that is almost all around the world. There was a 18 year old mother, and she wasn't educated, she came to a program with low self esteem. Both her math and reading scores were below 3rd grade level. Over 3 billion people live under $2.50 a day! That is half of the world’s population. 1.6 billion people have no access to fresh drinking water. 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized. Mother Teresa said that “ Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” World poverty is trying to be fought for almost everywhere. This is something that is good to fight for because everyone in this planet deserves to be treated right! It wouldn’t be fair if there are a handful of people that are out there in the world who are dying with nothing to eat or they aren't educated. One day world poverty WILL and SHALL end (people say that will happen in 2015). For now there are communities all around the world, that are helping all these people that are dieing with health and education. Kids all around the world will be sent to these communities and get their immu nization shots.

Ending poverty would be the best thing to do. Its been said that all about poverty and people being poor and world hunger and all those type of facts will end in the year 2015! “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” -James A. Baldwin. Nowadays the world has been surrounded by poverty. Not everyone in this world is treated right! Everyone should be treated equally. Everyone should be educated and should be healthy. If poverty ends then everyone will be treated equally. If everyone was able to go to one of these communities then at least there will be a bit of change. Not everyone gets this opportunity, but slowly there are people getting help. The fact that there are people that are still on the move for helping all these people is a good thing. “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” - Mahatma Gandhi. Poverty is something horrible to have in your lifetime. It might end or it might just continue for the rest of your life till you are dead. Poverty will hopefully end one day. That is the year 2015. One of the help that kids will get is getting educated since not all the kids are educated.

Every kid in this world deserves to be educated in every way. Kids all around the world should be educated and shouldn’t be going around and doing other things like begging. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela. If these kids don’t really get educated then it would affect their life for when they grow older. Education is a big part of your life. If kids get educated than there is a higher chance that these few kids might have a brighter future. These kid’s who aren't educated had no choice but when they go into programs they get really low grades. There was a girl and she was a 18 year old mother. She came to a program with low self esteem. When she took a test, her grades were below 3rd grade level. It’s not fair if there are kids that are really educated and then there is just a bunch of other kids that aren’t educated. Not only should kids be educated, but kids and adults should be healthy to be educated.

  All living things should live healthily and kids should be immunized every year at least. If these kids don’t get immunization shots, there is a higher chance that they will die. "If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger". - Buzz Aldrin. These people have nothing to eat, so all they do is either go beg for money and buy their own food. Most of them (especially kids) find food from the ground and they eat it. Everyone has the rights to eat proper food and not food from the ground. Everyone of these kids and adults should be able to be taken to a place where they treat you right and where you can eat proper food and where children can get their immunization shots. "If you want to eliminate hunger, everybody has to be involved".- Bono. Before kids can get educated, they need to be healthy in order to be educated because if they are not then there is probably no chance that they will be educated well. Kids should be healthy and should be educated and everyone in this world should be educated.

If kids don’t have their immunization shot then there will be a high chance that they will get very sick. They should get their shot’s at least once a year in an organization place. People in this organization place should go around places looking for people who go through these rough times. 800 million people have no access to health care. Extreme poverty could be banished from the globe in 2015! “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than a person that had nothing to eat.” (-Mother Teresa) What would you do to stop World Poverty?






Sunday, October 21, 2012

Chaeli Mycroft


The Story of Chaeli Mycroft

Worldwide hundreds of thousands of people have some sort of disability. Statistics show that there are an estimated 650 million people with disabilities  (Disabled World). There is one kid that can be counted one this, and her name is Chaeli. She has, and still is, helping many kids in South Africa with disability problems. Chaeli has made many changes in these people’s lives. She is not only helping the people around her, but she is also helping herself. Yes, Chaeli herself has disability problems. She is bound to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. After saving money for her motorized wheelchair, Chaeli became more independent and decided to help other disabled children.

Chaeli was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, which makes her bound to her wheel chair for the rest of her life. Unfortunately it means that she is paralized for the rest of her life. “ Through which the function of her arms and legs are limited.” After getting the wheelchair, she knew that she can become more independent and that she didn’t have to depend on other people to help her with things. Being independent will open more doors for her and allow her a better life (Children Peace Price Winner Chaeli Mycroft).  Therefore she said that she will make the wheelchair her self with her 3 best friends. At the age of 9, in 7 weeks she raised just the right amount of money for her to have a motorized wheelchair so that she could be much more independent. Chaeli realizes that people like her have a disadvantage against because of it. She fights to see that all people with disabilities have the same rights and privileges as those who have no disability. After she realized that helping other people was is what she does, she made her own campaign called the “Chaeli Champaign”.

The project Chaeli Campaign is a professional organization that utilizes therapy to help more than 3000 children with disabilities annually in South Africa (Chaeli Mycroft 2011). It is a very generous thing that Chaeli likes to help people. “Where others see limitations, she sees possibilities.” Even though she is disabled and there are some things which would be hard for her to do she doesn’t feel that she has the limitations others feel she has. She sees everything as a challenge to overcome and relishes the chance to show that she can do it. To Chaeli everyone is different and we need to accept if they have a disability or not (Chaeli Mycroft 2011). To sum things up she is a very helpful and caring person to everyone. She knew that she could help all the other children that also have disability problems. Even though she knew that she was in a wheelchair and couldn’t do much she could still give a helping hand. She didn’t want to help them because she had to. She helped them because she knew that it was right and everybody deserves the same rights and privileges. She knew that these small changes can make a big difference in these people’s life.

Since Chaeli has been through this situation, she believes that all people with disabilities  have the rights to live independently and lead a normal life. Since Chaeli is also in the same situation as all these people she knows what it is like to live this way. She thinks that all the people with disabilities have the rights to be like everyone else. By helping these kids with all these problems, she has helped them a lot because also those people can be independent and not just Chaeli. This shows how Chaeli, was a child that wasn't so independent but once she got onto her wheelchair she did what was best for the world. She is still a normal child like everyone else but she is a child that helps everyone else and makes their lives better.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Rain, Rain, Go AWAY!

 I am from Barbie’s, what I used to call my pets.
I am from swimming in the ocean. 
I am from playing football on a rainy day.
I am from listening to the hits of the symbol of Cody’s music.
I am from the land of dancing that I always go back to when I have to.
I am from the factory of chocolate and candy.
I am from the SpongeBob.

I am from a slight frustration hot and humid country.
 If I had to choose I would probably choose Europe.
 I am from rain and pours.
 I am from a city too crowded makes me feel like a wet sock on a rainy day!
I am from a noisy makes my ears go buzz like a bee.

I am from a family that loves traveling.
I am from god who are my parents.
I am from my brother’s heart and soul who means the world to me!
 My cat who is more like my little sister.
I am from relatives because I am so close to them.
I am from grandparents who are half of my life.

I am from the world of Lollipops and Sour candy--
 I am from the Asian spice group—
I am from the land of Junk food and healthy food.

“Sorry” the word just makes me go bonkers!
 Hate it when people say it for no reason!
 Hearing the word Family and Love it’s just music to my ears.
Friends, I just treat them like my brothers and sisters.

Remembering my grandmother telling me a story of how her dad built a mosque in Vietnam.
I am from a family that always does their best.
I am from a good term memory of death.
 Last things I told myself was that I will never cry when I go to his grave.