THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN, all over the world are being diverted from their homes and a normal life and future right under our eyes - and mostly we hear nothing about it
UNTIL NOW! Have you seen a thirty minute Video entitled KONY 2012. It was on my Face Book page this week - shared by a number of my friends If you have not seen it LOOK out for it and SEARCH for it on Your TUBE! It is a film made about a man known as Joseph KONY and he is the Leader of Uganda's terrorists known as The Lord's Resistance Army. He enlists his 'militia' by kidnapping young boys and girls and then taking them off into the jungle to forcibly train them to be 'soldiers' and sex workers. This youngster on the left is one of them now. There are thousands and thousands like him - and they do not occur in Uganda alone but all over Africa, and indeed the entire world is busy diverting children by 'kidnap from their home, school or workplace' to all manner of child labour, sex workers, and militia. Frightening? You bet!!
Kony has been around a long time, and he has been garnering children and youth to use in his banditry and terror campaign continuously.
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KONY 2012 concentrates mainly on one man's manic aim of turning kids into heartless, violent killers. He may even brainwash them in the process of his training technique. WE have had children in Testimony School who were taken by Warlords in the Sudan and forced to fight in their militia. It is not easy to get just the 'experience' of killing out of their system so that they can begin to 'come back' into normal society. The maker of KONY 2012 wants his film to get KONY and his crew into the limelight with a view to getting him caught and put away! More than 30 million people so far have been influenced to join this aim. He NEEDS to be STOPPED. These children need to be rescued and saved from his demonic grip. BUT it is not JUST Joseph Kony. He is just ONE man amongst many worldwide - and women too - engaged in making money out of children snatched from their homes. YET there is a substantial number of people discounting both the seriousness and even the truth depicted in this Video. There is an element of disbelief - or just plain willfull ignorance it seems about the REASON behind the video. I BELIEVE IT, and have met one or two members of Kony's 'Army'................
AND - NEVERTHLESS
It was reported here in Kenya in October last year for example that 'at least 50 girls aged between 10 and 15 are sold every week as sex workers in Nairobi and Mombasa.'
Since 2005 there has been a lot said about Child Trafficking in Kenya - even in Eldoret. The Kenya Children's Office has issued many warnings and even Reports with a view to alerting the public.
Since 2005 there has been a lot said about Child Trafficking in Kenya - even in Eldoret. The Kenya Children's Office has issued many warnings and even Reports with a view to alerting the public.
A REPORT recently issued by the International Peace Institute has stated that 'These Traffickers are connected to top Governmental Officials and political leaders who facilitate their operation.' And furthermore that 'This illegal activity is said to be generating revenues of about USD.40 million in the country annually and headed by a network known as 'Mukhali' who are respected and well known figures in the society as they operate legitimate businesses.'
SURELY IT IS UNTHINKABLE THAT A NATION CAN BE WILLING TO ACTUALLY LET THIS HAPPEN FROM WITHIN IT'S OWN CITIZENSHIP WITHOUT PUNITIVE ACTION?
WHAT is KENYA doing about it? What are YOU and I doing about it?
TODAY in the Digital STANDARD here in Kenya Dann Okoth's article written on the 16th December 2011 is again published -
'DID you know 27 million people are enslaved worldwide annually through human trafficking and US$.32 billion ( Ksh.3 TRILLION) is generated in profits annually from this illicit business?
This is the third largest illegal trade in the world after dealing in narcotics and small arms!
According to statistics posted on AOL News Network website, an estimated 6-8 hundred thousand people are trafficked annually internationally, of which 70 percent are women and 50 percent children.
The website further indicates that up to 1.2 million children are trafficked annually as sex slaves even as the United States alone records 14-17 thousand nationals being trafficked into the country annually.
Most of the victims , according to the report, are persecuted threatened, manipulated, abused, hidden, tortured and murdered.
The victims, especially the children, end up as sex slaves in brothels and massage parlours in red light districts across the world. After being exploited, most of the them are then thrown into the streets to become refugees, whilst others are re-sold to become child soldiers or child brides. Those considered the 'most worthless' re sold to be murdered and their organs harvested!'
These are some body's sons and daughters. These are OUR children. Here IN ELDORET children are disappearing - throughout the country parents are grieving. Even from England, and America children are being targeted - maybe YOUR child is being targeted.!! Think about it. The maker of the Video KONY-2012 sat down and thought about it, and has come up with something that is motivating the world - against ONE man at present - BUT surely if it is working against KONY it can work against ALL those ruthless 'sellers of flesh'; the 'termites' of our society that are slowly stripping away our life blood.
Do I make you pause in your blind daily life to THINK? I hope so. Don't let ANYONE snatch a child from your district, from your home, from your family!
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YESTERDAY Esther and I attended the funeral of our friend and brother Edward McCarthy here in Eldoret. They buried him in the grounds of the School he built up and ran for the poor for 42 years. It was a very moving occasion. Last Saturday I had announced that he was ill, but in actual fact as I wrote he past away painlessly in his sleep. We Thank God that he was spared a long and painful end.
THIS WEEK Daryl was in Nairobi trying to obtain my Work Permit which needed to be renewed. Whilst talking to the Immigration official it was agreed that I was in fact Graded incorrectly that that I should be on a Class E . Since 1990 I have been Graded as a 'A' person at a cost of more than £1500 every two years. As they continued to talk together my age came up, and that I had passed retirement age - therefore why should I not be a Dependant of Daryl - this would mean I no longer need a Work Permit and thus no Fee has to be paid, just an assurance every two years that I am still here!! All sounds like a miracle - was Daryl speaking to an Immigration Official or an Angel!!. SO after years of banging on their door shouting 'Foul' - all the walls are fallen down and I am FREE.
My Blood sugar still a bit high, but my Blood Pressure down. It has been VERY hot here, and I am never very good in such weather - a man of the COOL CLIMATE. We love you all, and remember you all each week as we combine to plan the Blog. Be Blessed, but do not go to sleep - the DAY HAS COME.
John and Esther
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