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i am

super duper sad :((

All about Dynamic Views for Authors

All about Dynamic Views for Authors

why do things have to....

why do things have to change when we expect them to stay the same. . .

then why do feelings remain the same when things have already changed.

001.

S.O.S

 

 

An injured young opposition supporter waves a flag in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 10, 2011.

More than a million children in western Libya are in serious danger as government forces vie with protesters for control of key towns and cities, including the country's capital Tripoli.

A thirteen year-old boy described the climate of fear in the city. "I'm terrified, scared, not feeling safe, and I'm afraid I'll be an orphan," he said. "I've heard that fathers of my friends are being taken and 'disappeared.'"

source: www.alertnet.org.

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• angelo
• Posted Apr 29 2008, 11:55 AM
• wahhh nagbahakhak jud q sa imu PESTImonial nAmi ae...
  
  well nAmi
  
  mangunguot... cge lang q mabiktima.huhu
  
  nalooy q sa iyang unlan, napahimuslan jud, iyang gesodomized...
  
  pagmatngon pud mu kanunay if magkasugat mu pohon, labina ang iyong pinalanggang hayopan kae sus zoophilia ning bayhana ni.. ahehehe
  
  hay so much of her sexual disorders
  
  despite sa iyang mga sakit love japon naq xah...
  partner mi sa mga shows... angel q, devil xah...
  nya like me, hitsuraan, ngilngig og ipektibo pud xah... hmmmmm
  
  lamat d i sa mga maanindot na mga higayon na nagkakoug tas mga kaboang... ahehehe na touch jud q ato ae... (amardz mode)
  
  age nganhe lang sa q...
  amping permi...
  undangi nang bisyo...
  aron di q mahasul...
  
  nAmi rOcks!
  
  ciao
  c:
• thanks ange, it's n'er too late to say that, is it?'
• you're one ov the coolest friends i ever had ;>

aPpie birthday!!!

my colleagues. . . :))

aPpie birthday, sir jOe :))

ty for the Lunch treat :>

stupid or foolish?

i nEver tHought i’d
bE as cLueLeSs as an idioT, uNtiL i
fOund oUt tHat i aM bEing fOoLed by
tHe oNe i tRuSted tHe mOst. . .

. . .tHis is y i wRote tHis pOem. . .

yOu heLped me to Live,
tAught me hOw to beLieVe;
toLd me to fOrgive,
aNd mOst ov aLL is tO giVe. . .
yEt you stiLL LeAve,
tHat i cOuLd hArdLy cOncEived;
yOu hAve jUst dEceivEd,
tHose wOrds. . .

. . .yOu diDn’t aChieve ;’(

aching tooth + johnny depp = L.O.V.E.

 

of all the pains that i have to endure, not an aching tooth puhlease ;'//

well, i just have to think JD instead and aching will somehow go away. . .

JD --i go over gaga whenever i think ov ϋ :))

Sudan: Save the Children

Health: As health is the first step towards recovery, Save the Children manages 53 primary health care facilities with local partners. Some of the centers represent the first social service infrastructure established in South Sudan in almost 20 years. Our centers treat children with diarrhea, malaria and respiratory infections and provide women with prenatal care, labor and delivery services and postnatal care. We also offer immunizations, distribute insecticide-treated bed nets and Vitamin A. Other health projects create and rehabilitate water supplies and educate families on hygiene and sanitation.

• Population: 39,379,358
• Population Growth Rate (annual %): 2.1
• Life Expectancy at Birth (years): 49
• Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births): 92
• Children Under-5 Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births): 90
• Lifetime Risk of Maternal Mortality (1 in number stated): 30
• Adult Male Literacy Rate (% of males 15+): 72
• Adult Female Literacy Rate (% of females 15+): 51
• Population with access to an improved water source (%): 70

Sources: CIA World Factbook, World Bank, UNDP

HIV/AIDS: As refugees return from countries with high rates of HIV/AIDS infection, there is the potential for a spike in Sudan's relatively low HIV infection rate. Save the Children has worked with local partners to make Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) available at health centers. Through VCT, individuals who test positive for HIV can receive counseling and be referred to available care and support services, such as support groups, treatment of infections, and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. In 2007, 40 peer educators delivered messages on HIV/AIDS to over 87,700 individuals and distributed over 85,000 condoms.

Education: Save the Children and other members of the International Save the Children Alliance are increasing children's access to basic education in eight states of Southern Sudan: Lakes, Warrap, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Unity, Jonglei, Western Equatoria and Upper Nile. Through our Rewrite the Future campaign, we provide an accelerated learning program for out-of-school children and vocational opportunities for young people ages 14-18. We are improving the quality of education by training teachers, training teacher tutors, and by making sure schools have latrines, clean water and teaching materials. As of 2007, 3,390 children had completed our accelerated learning program, allowing them to re-enter school. We had trained 450 female teachers and built seven schools and one teacher training facility.

young Love is in the air. . . :)

this is my cousin, she's thirteen years old and she's, ummmh, well, in-love with this guy beside her. . .

it's just amazing to see young people head-over-heels in love with each other <3

100,000 children displaced by Japan quake

SAVE the Children warned on Monday that up to 100,000 children have been displaced following the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated large parts of the north-east coast of Japan.

Mr Stephen McDonald, who is leading the British charity's response to the disaster, said: 'We are extremely anxious that up to 100,000 children have been displaced because of last Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

'Their homes may have been destroyed and many of them will be sheltering in crowded evacuation centres.

'We can only imagine how frightening the experience of the last few days will have been for them. There is also a risk that some of them will have become separated from their parents and family members because of the disaster.'

The quake - the biggest in Japan's history - struck off the coast of the country's main Honshu island on Friday, triggering a 10m tsunami which swept away houses, trains and cars after slamming into the Pacific shoreline.

Save the Children said many young people had already talked to them of their fears of returning home, the fact that they were missing their friends and how desperate they were to go back to school.

oh! ty :)

ummmwaaaahhhhh :)

. . .thanks to my followers in TUMBLR,

to kanie: oh! i soow Love you too <3 hehehe'

to misha: yeah, i hate the set-up aLso, but you see, i'm stiLL up :))

and to some. . . ummh. . . i forgot the names. . . ahahahah' sorry >.< : 

thank you muchhhhhh *smooches*

the cLassic:

i just saw my crush early this morning, and as usual, i was like, stunned and my cheeks were strikingly raging in pink. . . hahahah' twas Like," OMG! i am soooow visibLe" ~.~

Sudan: The Hungriest Place on Earth

After years of battling drought and civil and tribal wars, Sudan, the largest country on the African continent, is experiencing looming famine.



An entire population is teetering on the verge of severe starvation, and the children are the ones who are mostly affected: Little ones with eyes that are sunken in, reed-thin legs barely able to support them, exposed ribs, distended bellies, skin barely clinging to their bones, and gazes that are lifeless are just biding their time, waiting to die.





The number of people in southern Sudan who are in dire need of food assistance has more than quadrupled, from 1 million in 2009 to 4.3 million this year, according to the U.N. Thus far, charitable organizations have fed an estimated 80,000 people, but experts are theorizing that the worst is yet to come because the harvest is not expected until fall, and that is dependent on whether the rains come at all. Even if the rains come, though, there are no seeds for the people to plant and grow their food.



Humanitarian efforts by such groups as Save the Children and Medair have actually searched for the hungriest children in communities throughout the devastated land and placed them in therapeutic-feeding programs, where diets with primarily fortified peanut butter were given to them to bring them back from the brink.



"We are only just entering the start of the hunger gap, so we would expect nutrition levels to worsen in the coming months," said Kate Foster, director of Program Development for Save the Children in Southern Sudan (SCiSS).


The straw huts and dusty community of Akobo has the highest rate of starvation. The village is part of an isolated region suffering from tribal warfare that has displaced almost 400,000 people. Akobo has also been the site of violent tribal conflicts for the past year in addition to suffering from lack of rain, insecurity in the area and five years of crop failures.



The skeletal bodies that slowly trail about the land are also a sad reminder of the civil wars that have lasted more than two decades, killing 2 million people and causing countless to be displaced. That conflict is separate from the war in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, which began in 2003 and has killed an estimated 300,000.

Unfortunately, government efforts are few and far between because of global financial decline.



Until there is a major global intervention to steer the region out of its current emergency state, many of the country's children will die. Meanwhile, humanitarian organizations like SCiSS, Medair and the World Food Programme will continue to distribute supplemental food rations for families in need, and International Medical Corps, which runs the county hospital, will stay-the-course in providing care for severely malnourished children. 


in behalf of these children, the passion and desire of my heart to take an immediate action has grown strongly. . . this may be a lil' thing to do with these children, but by blogging this, I know, I can extend a lil' help. . . 
my heart weeps, my soul awakens, and my body trembles. . .

source:  http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/14/sudan-children-are-starving/

wanting a meal. . .

This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

he just took a shot and then left, without even trying to help this helpless angel. . .
the child has died due to severe starvation, idk what happened next, but the only thing i knew. . .
he killed himself.

A portion of his suicide note:

 "I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky."

Hunger Stats

Every year, authors, journalists, teachers, researchers, schoolchildren and students ask us for statistics about hunger and malnutrition. To help answer these questions, we've compiled a database of useful facts and figures on world hunger.

GLOBAL HUNGER

• 925 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union;
  (Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010)
• 98 percent of the world's hungry live in developing countries;
  (Source: FAO news release , 2010)
• Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people;
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
• Women make up a little over half of the world's population, but they account for over 60 percent of the world’s hungry.
  (Source:  Strengthening efforts to eradicate hunger..., ECOSOC, 2007)
• 65 percent  of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)

CHILD HUNGER 

• More than 70 percent of the world's 146 million underweight children under age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone;
  (Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
• 10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
  (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
• The cost of undernutrition to national economic development is estimated at US$20-30 billion per annum;
  (Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
• One out of four children - roughly 146 million - in developing countries are underweight;
  (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
• Every year WFP feeds more than 20 million children in school feeding programmes in some 70 countries. In 2008, WFP fed a record 23 million children.
  (Source: WFP School Feeding Unit)

MALNUTRITION

• It is estimated that 684,000 child deaths worldwide could be prevented by increasing access to vitamin A and zinc
  (Source: WFP Annual Report 2007)

• Undernutrition contributes to 53 percent of the 9.7 million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries.
  (Source: Under five deaths by cause, UNICEF, 2006)

• Lack of Vitamin A kills a million infants a year
  (Source: Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency, A Global Progress Report, UNICEF)

• Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition worldwide, affecting an estimated 2 billion people.6 Eradicating iron deficiency can improve national productivity levels by as much as 20 percent.
  (Source:  World Health Organization, WHO Global Database on Anaemia)

• Iron deficiency is impairing the mental development of 40-60 percent children in developing countries
  (Source: Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency, A Global Progress Report, p2, UNICEF)

• Vitamin A deficiency affects approximately 25 percent of the developing world’s pre-schoolers. It is associated with blindness, susceptibility to disease and higher mortality rates. It leads to the death of approximately 1-3 million children each year.
  (Source: UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. World Nutrition Situation 5th report. 2005)

• Iodine deficiency is the greatest single cause of mental retardation and brain damage. Worldwide, 1.9 billion people are at risk of iodine deficiency, which can easily be prevented by adding iodine to salt
  (Source:  UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. World Nutrition Situation 5th report. 2005)

FOOD & HIV/AIDS

• In the countries most heavily affected, HIV has reduced life expectancy by more than 20 years, slowed economic growth, and deepened household poverty.
  (Source: 2008 UNAIDS Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic)

• In sub-Saharan Africa alone, the epidemic has orphaned nearly 12 million children aged under 18 years.
  (Source: 2008 UNAIDS Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic).

• WFP and UNAIDS project that it will cost on average US $0.70 cents per day to nutritionally support an AIDS patient and his/her family.
  (Source: Cost of Nutritional Support for HIV/AIDS Projects, WFP, July 2008)
• Assistance for orphans and vulnerable children is estimated at US$0.31 per day.
  (Source: Cost of Nutritional Support for HIV/AIDS Projects, WFP, July 2008)

hear me out :o

 

(From L-R) Joemz, (Me) and Juan.

. . . join us to end child hunger,

visit my TUMBLR account on HOW to join :)

f'ship

 

make the most out of FRIENDSHIP :))

i soow miss you, f'ship :((

Simple vs Real

Anyone can stand by you when you are right, but a Friend will stand by you even when you are wrong...

A simple friend identifies himself when he calls. A real friend doesn't have to.

A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life.

A real friend says, "What's new with you?"

A simple friend thinks the problems you whine about are recent.

A real friend says, "You've been whining about the same thing for 14 years. Get off your duff and do something about it."

A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.

A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them. A real friend expects to always be there for you!

@bRo: aPpie aPpie biRthday bRo. . . i Knw tHis s sUch a Lame Line eVerybOdy uTters, yet i'd rAther sAy it oVer aNd oVer aGain cz 4me, it's sUmhOw cOmpeLLing, "dOn't eVer cHange, jz sTAy as u r" aNd dOn't sTop gRowing. . . Love out ov Love, nOt out ov dEsire to be LOved and LOve., [xaBta nLng ky aq ng'LibOg] ahahaha'

@fRieNdshiPs: FRIENDSHIP IS A PRICELESS GIFT, THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT OR SOLD

From the Blogger

 

just recently. . .

you knew, you read, you commented, you even reacted violently [hehe' not to mention those who really fought for/with me 'til I (you know, somehow) fed up!]

this is really really hard, but I decided to just let it go --i meant, let go of you, guys :(

you might start to wonder why I don't have followers anymore. . . I remove you all as my avid followers. . .

deleted my blogs in the prior years of 2009 and 2010, and left some uninteresting blogs of 2010. . .

even your comments and everything, sad, but I need to do it, to do those stuffs to you, guys. . .

thanks for supporting me all the way 

--that even if I almost been kicked-out from my art workshop camp during summer [you knew the reason why :))] i still have you <3

--that even if I almost drowned myself to work [hmmf, and love. hahahah'], you reminded me :)

--that even if I almost lost my life due to my stupid ever allergy, you raised me up. hehehe'

--that even if I almost gave up from inevitable circumstances, you enlightened me:))

--I guess, WORDS are POWERLESS to appreciate and thank you, guys!!!

to my worthless faggot followers -- YOU SUCK!!!

again, to my ever beloved followers, you can still have me in TUMBLR :))

and i still wanna hear everything from you, guys \m/  

whenever you have something to say or whutsoever, puhlease post in my tumblr, not here. . .

P.S.

i am not giving up this blog, there's no way i am giving up!!!

As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists

from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/world/asia/13malnutrition.html?_r=1&ref=world

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Malnutrition in India is worse than in many African nations, stunting the growth of children like this girl in Shivpuri, photographed in November 2008. 

NEW DELHI — Small, sick, listless children have long been India’s scourge — “a national shame,” in the words of its prime minister, Manmohan Singh. But even after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse here than in many sub-Saharan African countries, and they stand out as a paradox in a proud democracy.

India Struggles With Hunger

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Vivek, a malnourished boy, on a scale last November at 23 months old at a feeding center in Shivpuri. India runs the largest child feeding program, but experts say it is inadequately designed.

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Children eating at a center in Delhi last December.

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

A malnourished 21-month-old boy named Satish and his mother, Leela, at the Shivpuri feeding center last November.

China, that other Asian economic powerhouse, sharply reduced child malnutrition, and now just 7 percent of its children under 5 are underweight, a critical gauge of malnutrition. In India, by contrast, despite robust growth and good government intentions, the comparable number is 42.5 percent. Malnutrition makes children more prone to illness and stunts physical and intellectual growth for a lifetime.

There are no simple explanations. Economists and public health experts say stubborn malnutrition rates point to a central failing in this democracy of the poor. Amartya Sen, the Nobel prize-winning economist, lamented that hunger was not enough of a political priority here. India’s public expenditure on health remains low, and in some places, financing for child nutrition programs remains unspent.

Yet several democracies have all but eradicated hunger. And ignoring the needs of the poor altogether does spell political peril in India, helping to topple parties in the last elections.

Others point to the efficiency of an authoritarian state like China. India’s sluggish and sometimes corrupt bureaucracy has only haltingly put in place relatively simple solutions — iodizing salt, for instance, or making sure all children are immunized against preventable diseases — to say nothing of its progress on the harder tasks, like changing what and how parents feed their children.

But as China itself has grown more prosperous, it has had its own struggles with health care, as the government safety net has shredded with its adoption of a more market-driven economy.

While India runs the largest child feeding program in the world, experts agree it is inadequately designed, and has made barely a dent in the ranks of sick children in the past 10 years.

The $1.3 billion Integrated Child Development Services program, India’s primary effort to combat malnutrition, finances a network of soup kitchens in urban slums and villages.

But most experts agree that providing adequate nutrition to pregnant women and children under 2 years old is crucial — and the Indian program has not homed in on them adequately. Nor has it succeeded in sufficiently changing child feeding and hygiene practices. Many women here remain in ill health and are ill fed; they are prone to giving birth to low-weight babies and tend not to be aware of how best to feed them.

A tour of Jahangirpuri, a slum in this richest of Indian cities, put the challenge on stark display. Shortly after daybreak, in a rented room along a narrow alley, an all-female crew prepared giant vats of savory rice and lentil porridge.

Purnima Menon, a public health researcher with the International Food Policy Research Institute, was relieved to see it was not just starch; there were even flecks of carrots thrown in. The porridge was loaded onto bicycle carts and ferried to nurseries that vet and help at-risk children and their mothers throughout the neighborhood.

So far, so good. Except that at one nursery — known in Hindi as an anganwadi — the teacher was a no-show. At another, there were no children; instead, a few adults sauntered up with their lunch pails. At a third, the nursery worker, Brij Bala, said that 13 children and 13 lactating mothers had already come to claim their servings, and that now she would have to fill the bowls of whoever came along, neighborhood aunties and all. “They say, ‘Give us some more,’ so we have to,” Ms. Bala confessed. “Otherwise, they will curse us.”

None of the centers had a working scale to weigh children and to identify the vulnerable ones, a crucial part of the nutrition program.

Most important from Ms. Menon’s point of view, the nurseries were largely missing the needs of those most at risk: children under 2, for whom the feeding centers offered a dry ration of flour and ground lentils, containing none of the micronutrients a vulnerable infant needs.

In a memorandum prepared in February, the Ministry of Women and Child Development acknowledged that while the program had yielded some gains in the past 30 years, “its impact on physical growth and development has been rather slow.” The report recommended fortifying food with micronutrients and educating parents on how to better feed their babies.

A World Food Program report last month noted that India remained home to more than a fourth of the world’s hungry, 230 million people in all. It also found anemia to be on the rise among rural women of childbearing age in eight states across India. Indian women are often the last to eat in their homes and often unlikely to eat well or rest during pregnancy. Ms. Menon’s institute, based in Washington, recently ranked India below two dozen sub-Saharan countries on its Global Hunger Index.

Childhood anemia, a barometer of poor nutrition in a lactating mother’s breast milk, is three times higher in India than in China, according to a 2007 research paper from the institute.

The latest Global Hunger Index described hunger in Madhya Pradesh, a destitute state in central India, as “extremely alarming,” ranking the state somewhere between Chad and Ethiopia.

More surprising, though, it found that “serious” rates of hunger persisted across Indian states that had posted enviable rates of economic growth in recent years, including Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Here in the capital, which has the highest per-capita income in the country, 42.2 percent of children under 5 are stunted, or too short for their age, and 26 percent are underweight. A few blocks from the Indian Parliament, tiny, ill-fed children turn somersaults for spare change at traffic signals.

Back in Jahangirpuri, a dead rat lay in the courtyard in front of Ms. Bala’s nursery. The narrow lanes were lined with scum from the drains. Malaria and respiratory illness, which can be crippling for weak, undernourished children, were rampant. Neighborhood shops carried small bags of potato chips and soda, evidence that its residents were far from destitute.

In another alley, Ms. Menon met a young mother named Jannu, a migrant from the northern town of Lucknow. Jannu said she found it difficult to produce enough milk for the baby in her arms, around 6 months old. His green, watery waste dripped down his mother’s arms. He often has diarrhea, Jannu said, casually rinsing her arm with a tumbler of water.

Ms. Menon could not help but notice how small Jannu was, like so many of Jahangirpuri’s mothers. At 5 feet 2 inches tall, Ms. Menon towered over them. Children who were roughly the same age as her own daughter were easily a foot shorter. Stunted children are so prevalent here, she observed, it makes malnutrition invisible.

“I see a system failing,” Ms. Menon said. “It is doing something, but it is not solving the problem.”

About three million children at risk in Africa: UN

from: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/About-three-million-children-at-risk-in-Africa-UN/358130/

Almost three million children across the Horn of Africa are at risk of death, disease and malnutrition due to a combination of drought, rising food prices and conflict, UNICEF said on Saturday.

The children are among the more than 14 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda and Djibouti that are critically affected, and the numbers are on an ‘alarming upward trajectory,’ UNICEF said.

The agency said some experts are predicting that million more children and families could be affected across the Horn of Africa if steps are not taken immediately.

“Strong national leadership is needed at this critical juncture, and more international funding must be quickly mobilised," UNICEF's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Per Engebak, said in a statement.

"The risks to children and their families are immense and we are running out of time to reverse them."

Relief efforts in the troubled region have been hampered by weak governance as well as attacks on aid workers by armed groups. 

"Security is a major complication in responding to the needs of affected people in many parts of the Horn at this time," said Engebak.

He also underscored the difficulties of lack of access, along with the soaring cost of food grains and cereals worldwide. Food prices have risen by as much as 200 per cent over the past eight months in some of the worst drought-affected countries, making it nearly impossible for many families to purchase much-need items. 

 

Libya: 1M children @ Risk

i read this article and just wanna share it to those who doesn't know yet. . .

More than 1 million children in western Libya are in serious danger as government forces vie with protesters for control of key towns and cities, including the country's capital Tripoli.

Wednesday 2 March 2011

A child holds a "Kindgom of Libya" flag while anti-government demonstrators listen to a speech in Benghazi, Libya.

We have gathered testimony from families and children in Tripoli and nearby towns, who have spoken of their fears of death, injury and arrest as Libyan security forces continue to crack down on opposition protesters. It is estimated that over a million children live in the area.

"The danger posed to children in Libya by political violence and its consequences, such as shortages of essential goods, is massive," said Gareth Owen, Save the Children's emergency director.

"The situation in Libya could quickly spiral out of control, and that would be a disaster for hundreds of thousands of children, who could be forced to flee their homes, or worse, get caught up in serious violence."

A thirteen year-old boy from Tripoli interviewed by Save the Children described the climate of fear in the city. "I'm terrified, scared, not feeling safe, and I'm afraid I'll be an orphan," he said. "I've heard that fathers of my friends are being taken and 'disappeared.'"

700,000 children are believed to live in Tripoli, where the humanitarian situation remains unclear due to difficulties in gaining independent access to the civilian population.

Reports from the city suggest that schools are closed, with many people staying at home rather than risking attracting the attention of security forces patrolling the streets.

Meanwhile, in the opposition-controlled town of Zawiya, Save the Children spoke to a mother who described fears of her family being caught in violence if government forces, currently surrounding the town, tried to retake control.

"I have heard that mercenaries are surrounding the area and preventing any supplies coming in," she said. "I am worried that there is going to be a shortage of food as a result of this siege. When I hear a bang, I think that the house has been hit."

The fears of families living in the west of the country reflect a deeply volatile situation that has already caused more than 100,000 people, mainly migrant workers, to flee Libya to Egypt and Tunisia.

There are reports that Libyan families trying to leave the country are being harassed by security forces on their side of the border.

reblog if you have a heart!

::Children at Risk. . . they're all over the world,
if you'll just open your eyes wider, you can actually see them. . .
if you'll listen closely, you can really hear them --whining, screaming from within. . .
if you'll extend your hands, you can wholly feel them. . .

help them. . .

reblog if you care enough. ..

 

never too late. . .

--we hold the change. . .

--we can make things change. . .

--we can reach for a better CHANGE. . .

--you know, it's never too late, help to stop child hunger. . .

share. . . share. . . share.

YOU CAN!!!

awaken

::join me to end chiLd hunger. . .

awaken your eyes, especially your heart.

>.<

on bended knEes

 

::when things go wrong--Look up!!!

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SiOPAO. . .

 my lover had given me 4 pieces of Siopao which I requested to buy for me. . .

it's really been so long since the last time I ate Siopao, but surprisinlgy, they weren't even so enticing when he handed those to me. . . I just took a lil' bite and then, put it back in the paper bag. . .

anyway, here's the classic of my story. . .

"why didn't you bring your Siopao?" he texted. . .

"i forgot. . ." i replied the next morning.

"well, i guess, those weren't for me, then. . ." i continued.

--Those weren't for me.

or not even meant for me. . . the most hurtful yet meaningful phrase I have ever utter in my whole life!

just like me saying "I'm letting you go. . ." or "I am happy that you've found someone who really deserves you.".

Hard, yes it is! but sometimes, having a thought that some things aren't meant for you, is accepting the fact that you just can't have it all, everything. It's not being a loser or a jerk, but you're just being fair of yourself.

fair enough to accept truth and reality, yeah, it may hurts so bad, but, you know, hurts occur that way. . .

-- no matter how hard you strive for something, if it's not meant for you, it will N'ER EVER be yours, and if it is, then it's BEAUTIFUL!!!

........that's is the result of eating Siopao :>