These photos belong to one Albert Gonzales and were sent to me via by a South Sudanese friend and poet by the name of Chris Blakka with a simple question... 'Why do you even complain about Kenya?' I felt remarkably guilty and I will tell you why.
What you are looking at is a teacher in a class of children below the ages of ten. He's the only one who has a book so the children have to scribe using their own fingers on the levelled sand! My heart is breaking.
Imagine your child (I am a mother so this hurts) sitting in an open air classroom in one of the hottest countries in Africa and using their finger as a pen. This is after their eardrums were formed accustomed to gunshots and their eyes used to deadly violence all through their innocent lives.
South Sudan is the youngest country in the world as it gained their independence as recently as 2011. This was soon followed by a Civil War in 2013 that has been going on to date after President Kiir got into a power struggle with his former Deputy Riek Machar. Knowing that up to 300,000 people are said to have been killed, why would I expect a simple class in a place they have no respect over life, right?
I think it just sad that some of us are lucky enough to even know how to converse here on the blockchain -the future- yet some of us are locked in war-torn nations with nowhere to go and still striving to get ahead. These children have taught me a huge lesson as much as I am angered by the affairs of their burning motherland!
#PrayForSouthSudan
#PrayForTornNations
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