Xolani Nkosi Johnson, was born with HIV on on February 4, 1989, in South Africa, he was passed on the virus from his mother Nonthlanthla Daphne Nkosi. Many never gave Nkosi a chance to live, but this little boy was not just born with HIV, was born with a fighting spirit that few of us […]
As you celebrate the 4th with family and friends, do not forget the reason you are celebrating…Freedom! While we BBQ, swim, laugh, and enjoy our family and friends, there are 30 million people who are touched by human slavery! Don't take your freedom for granted, and use your voice to speak for those who have […]
HIV/AIDS is a true pandemic, and unless we take serious action, it will continue to plague us for generations, and generations to come. AIDS has taken more than 20 million lives, and HIV has infected more than 60 million people worldwide. But the virus doesn't stop there, it continues to devastate families and villages around […]
“The true measure of a nation's standing is how well it attends to its children , their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued, and included in the families and societies into which they are born.” -UNICEF What is really a better life for a […]
Children so often suffer unjustly, just because they are children, for the world too often sees them as less worthy to have a voice. However all children have the right to be heard, and they have so much to say and contribute to the world. With age and power we so often forget the wisdom […]
This past year the media brought one particular issue of child trafficking and slavery to the public’s attention, camel jockeys. This year alone 43 children have already been recovered in the Middle East. Many of the children have been taken from poorer areas of Pakistan and many with the consent of their parents, as traffickers […]
Education is a basic right for all children around the world, yet in the developing world there are almost two billion children, most of which are not receiving an a proper education, or any education at all. According to the Global Fund for Children one in five children, 120 to 125 million children, are not […]
The key to peace is in the eyes, hearts and minds of children. Children all across the world belong to all of us, they are our future. Forget not the child that is not within your sight, keep always in you heart and mind the children who suffer needlessly each and every day.
Photo by Mark Edwards In honor of today being International Refugee Day, I want to draw your attention to the millions of child refugees, who are parentless and alone in their struggle for safety and a home. For millions of children home is a word has very little meaning, or serves only as a painful […]
Photo: Karel Prinsloo – AP There are 12 million refugees, as of 2005, and an additional 21 million Internally displaced persons scattered across the globe today, approximately 44% of which are children. Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 is World Refugee Day, a day set to honor the plight and resilient struggle of refugees around the […]
This morning British police after 10 months of investigations, with agencies around the globe, finally broke through an international internet pedophile ring. The internet site was dishearteningly called, “Kids the Light of Our Lives”, and its founder went by the screen name “Son of God”. Membership of the internet pedophile ring was is over 700, […]
Children in Africa are faced with a plethora of human rights violations in their daily struggles for survival. Parents and children in the west often take our freedoms, health and educations for granted, while on the continent of Africa diseases of the past still run rampant, child labor and the use of child soldiers impacts […]
Fear not the power your words have on your children, you are their teachers, idols and role models. Whether a parent or not, their are children out there looking up to you for guidance, be open, be honest and most of all allow children those same rights as they express their own ideas and thoughts.
