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Post by vik3000 on Nov 15, 2007 22:52:22 GMT
Has anyone just seen the Evening News and the report on the Asylums in Serbia. OMG - it has really disturbed me, parents were routinely advised to leave their (disabled) children at these places and consequently these children have been left to grow up in their cots and you have adults in cots. Many of the children are skeletal, most are tied to their cots. itn.co.uk/news/39623d2ee8f81e003dd275d2bf0aa6c4.html (story) itn.co.uk/news/world_news.html (this is to access the video link) The inhumane treatment that STILL goes on in world today is unbelievable and so very very tragic. All I wanted to do was reach out my hand to those poor children, give them a mummy, no a human being hug and love. That is going to haunt my sleep tonight.
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Post by sj on Nov 15, 2007 23:12:54 GMT
As awful as it sounds Im glad I didnt see it as things like that break my heart and play on my mind for a long long time. I cant believe that there are places in the world that still let this go on, its disgraceful.
Sam
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Post by lorri on Nov 15, 2007 23:20:10 GMT
I can't watch things like that Vik it upsets me too much and ultimately there's nothing that I personally can do about it so I try to blank it.
I know that's really, really bad and I do feel guilty about it but I just can't handle it, it's too upsetting. If there was some action I could take to sort it out it would be different.
There's lots of things like that going on. I had accupuncture by a chinese doctor a year ago and she told me horrendous things that go on in China and the governments around the world know about it but all ignore it for various political reasons and it really upset me for ages. I got a bit obsessed about it, looking things up on the internet etc but I couldn't do anything.
I hope that doesn't make me a horrible person.
Lorri x
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Post by charleyfarley on Nov 15, 2007 23:22:37 GMT
I used to mind for someone who adopted a child from China who was exactly the same.
They adopted him at 18 months and his head at the back was completely flat because he was perminately lying down in his cot.
They knew nothing else but to lay there.
He was a lovely little boy but very timid and would often cower at sudden noises and movements.
Carol xx
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Post by susan on Nov 16, 2007 7:36:12 GMT
It's heartbreaking, I remember watching a documentary on an orphanage in Romania and it sounds very alike, they children were either in cots all day or tied to potty chairs and they just rocked back and forth all day long, left to lay in excrement for hours and given no interaction with an carers, if you can call them that, or other children, it was heart breaking x
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Post by carolinel on Nov 16, 2007 13:01:12 GMT
Lorri,
It doesn't make you a bad person at all. I'm the same. my Mum always holidays in places like Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and India, she comes home and tells me of how the people there live, it breaks my heart. I ask her if she gave them money or clothes and she says no which I can never understand, but I suppose they don't know any different and you can't change the world.
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Post by lorri on Nov 16, 2007 13:12:39 GMT
Thanks Caroline.
I think when you visit a lot of those kind of places you are often advised not to give anything to the locals but it must be tough. I always want to help everyone and adopt all the children - I'm useless! Couldn't be an aid worker I'd adopt whole villages!
Lorri x
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Post by vik3000 on Nov 16, 2007 13:14:28 GMT
Lorri, It doesn't make you a bad person at all. I'm the same. my Mum always holidays in places like Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and India, she comes home and tells me of how the people there live, it breaks my heart. I ask her if she gave them money or clothes and she says no which I can never understand, but I suppose they don't know any different and you can't change the world. I would challenge that Caroline (apologies I have edited as I put lorri)- about not being able to change the world - we can all do a little to change the world and us as parents and childminders do our bit each day - we educate our charges about humanity and equality. We can try to fill our bags to school (sacks) etc. I know what you mean though - the bigger picture. It was heartbreaking and I always try to contribute to relevant (proper) charities - of course you can't do each and every one and as much as we love to scoop up each and every child we can't. I know and understand that. Today at my childrens school for CIN - it was Dress as something different - one child in my sons class (age 7) went dressed as a girl (he is a boy) and he was collecting sponsership. Brave little lad - I admire him immensely. Also at school today was a truck - Remember Chernobyle (sorry for the spelling) - the children have been collecting things like pens, pencils, items of clothing, books for a couple of months and the truck was there to collect. No - we all do a little and one day this world WILL change and there will be no more poverty, starvation, people left to die. Sorry for being rather impassioned xx
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Post by sue on Nov 17, 2007 22:54:35 GMT
wish it was that easy!! l wish the above could happen but the world is to damage for things to change that much
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Post by carolinel on Nov 17, 2007 23:01:57 GMT
Hi :)don't get me wrong - I do my bit, donate to all the charities, fill the bags for school etc etc and if I holidayed in places like that I would give them everything I could. just can't understand why my Mum doesn't. The governments of these third world countries have a lot to answer for, and maybe you are right, eventually there will be an end to poverty, but i think that is a long way off. Maybe the powers that be should be investing money in the people rather than weapons and warfare.
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Post by june on Nov 18, 2007 15:51:34 GMT
Well said Caroline . Weapons are the last things these countries should be buying Can I also say that as an ex Foster Carer there are some awful things still happening to children on our own doorsteps!
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