The Westernian Advocate

DevCom-Magazine
Von Joven Kristian Gardiano
Through a Childs Lens
How UNICEF finds hope amidst the ruins of child abuse
Youve always seen them in the daily news; helpless faces the reports display.
Youve actually heard their failing voices; in early death they live. Youve even smelled
their rotting odors in your jeepney ride this morning; and through leftover foods they
define survival. But did you care? No. Did you mind to help? Not even a centavo. The
heck your senses failed. Look, the symptoms are present. Youre getting older.
Here in the Philippines, many are really getting older because of self-made
blindness, deaf-mute condition and nose failure to sense the plight of our children today
diseases which are hard to cure. Arguably, constant enemies of life such as poverty,
hunger, child abuse, child labor and trafficking are quite manageable but the great
problem lies on the lack of heart to help by almost all of men alive. But the world
seemed so kind still when it gave birth to UNICEF. Since then, there is hope for them.
There are heroes of goodwill; there are lifeguards to protect them. And most importantly,
there are reasons for children to cast away their fears and pose their smiles again.
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