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| A kenyan mother |
“I know poverty because poverty was there before I was born and it has become part of life like the blood through my veins. Poverty is not going empty for a single day and getting something to eat the next day. Poverty is going empty with no hope for the future. Poverty is getting nobody to feel your pain and poverty is when your dreams go in vain because nobody is there to help you. Poverty is watching your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters die in pain and in sorrow just because they couldn't get something to eat. Poverty is hearing your grandmothers and grandfathers cry out to death to come take them because they are tired of this world. Poverty is watching your own children and grandchildren die in your arms but there is nothing you can do. Poverty is watching your children and grandchildren shade tears in their deepest sleep. Poverty is suffering from HIV/AIDS and dying a shameful death but nobody seems to care". " Poverty is when you hide your face and wish nobody could see you just because you feel less than a human being. Poverty is when you dream of bread and fish you never see in the day light. Poverty is when people accuse you and prosecute you for no fault of yours but who is there to say something for you? Poverty is when the hopes of your fathers and grandfathers just vanish within a blink of an eye. I know poverty and I know poverty just like I know my father's name. Poverty never sleeps. Poverty works all day and night. Poverty never takes a holiday" (One Poor Kenyan)
This peace is just wonderful. It has born out of your blood flowing in your veins. It seems to have taken shape eating out your flesh and blood.
ReplyDeleteI strongly suggest you keep your feelings with Kenya intact.
I also suggest you not to be pessimistic. There is a way to every problem. Solutions for this sort of problems are long, hard and appear impossible, because we have sponsored poverty instead of natural.
Only thing is whether we are ready to see it or not. If you are ready you will be able to see it in you own say.
No pessimism at all,mine was quoting an aggrieved party and trying to expose an ill which is rampant among many Kenyan fork,I believe there is a way to break this vicious cycle of poverty and set our people free from this bondage,Without which i don't see the feasibility of The countries' economic blueprint.
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