Something you probably didn't know....
Is it just me or does everyone wonder what stroke of incredible good luck led us to be born in Australia?
Ok...I know I run the very real risk of only telling you bad stuff on this blog...but I can't ignore this and I don't want you to either.
Last year I met a Sunshine Coast Clinical Psychologist Dr Robi Sonderegger. Great man.
He told me about the civil war in Northern Uganda. Kofi Annan has described this region as the most dangerous place in the world for a child to live.
There is a civil war raging in Uganda…Villagers can no longer farm their land for fear of being attacked by a rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army or LRA.
Children as young as seven are abducted by the LRA are forced to fight against National Military, they’re recruited to raid villages for food, destroy property, rape and slaughter civilians, and abduct other children. Young children are often forced to witness their parents being killed.
Horrifically, as a way of traumatising these kids, in numerous cases, abducted children have been forced to participate in the killing of other children (or face being killed themselves).
Apparently this is an emotional manipulation tactic…can you believe it…the idea is, if you traumatise a child enough…they’ll be too scared to escape.
Young girls are given to commanders as wives, and bare children into captivity to be groomed as the new generation of ruthless killers.
It is estimated that 90% of the LRA is now comprised of children; which again, is a dilemma for National military trying to fight the rebels…
We're talking about children as young as seven.So what does Dr Robi Sonderegger want? I promise you, he doesn't want your money. He wants your voice.
He wants an army of people willing for find out about what is happening to these children and spread the word. And force the world to act.
For 18 years the world has ignored these little babies. Why? I don't know. Probably because they're not lucky enough to be sitting on oil...
Remember what Kofi Annan said… this is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to live...and most of us didn't even know there was a problem.So...it's not all bad, there is something you can do.
Spread the word....click belowwww.thefrontline.org.au
Ok...I know I run the very real risk of only telling you bad stuff on this blog...but I can't ignore this and I don't want you to either.
Last year I met a Sunshine Coast Clinical Psychologist Dr Robi Sonderegger. Great man.
He told me about the civil war in Northern Uganda. Kofi Annan has described this region as the most dangerous place in the world for a child to live.
There is a civil war raging in Uganda…Villagers can no longer farm their land for fear of being attacked by a rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army or LRA.
Children as young as seven are abducted by the LRA are forced to fight against National Military, they’re recruited to raid villages for food, destroy property, rape and slaughter civilians, and abduct other children. Young children are often forced to witness their parents being killed.
Horrifically, as a way of traumatising these kids, in numerous cases, abducted children have been forced to participate in the killing of other children (or face being killed themselves).
Apparently this is an emotional manipulation tactic…can you believe it…the idea is, if you traumatise a child enough…they’ll be too scared to escape.
Young girls are given to commanders as wives, and bare children into captivity to be groomed as the new generation of ruthless killers.
It is estimated that 90% of the LRA is now comprised of children; which again, is a dilemma for National military trying to fight the rebels…
We're talking about children as young as seven.So what does Dr Robi Sonderegger want? I promise you, he doesn't want your money. He wants your voice.
He wants an army of people willing for find out about what is happening to these children and spread the word. And force the world to act.
For 18 years the world has ignored these little babies. Why? I don't know. Probably because they're not lucky enough to be sitting on oil...
Remember what Kofi Annan said… this is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to live...and most of us didn't even know there was a problem.So...it's not all bad, there is something you can do.
Spread the word....click belowwww.thefrontline.org.au
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