More than I can Do....

After thinking through my options and then realising how much I wanted to work with children and how much I really wanted to do something in order to put a smile on children's faces, I realised that embarking on the journey to Norway in pursuit of the career that God willing will help change some children's lives. But again when I think about it till now, I usually ask myself whether I will be able to do something about children's situations that are so heartbreaking today.

For example, the violence against children and the molestation that has really embedded our societies today. Talk about stepmothers burning children every day, relatives involving young girls into early domestic work, talk about the defilement that is on a rise today, children are not only defiled by strangers but also their own fathers.  Children as young as two months are defiled by their fathers. The list is endless and when you think about all this you might think its all made up, but do you ever at any time ask yourself how many cases of defilement or violence against children reach media? I ask myself that question every day and I have a feeling the cases that do not reach media, are more than those that do. When they are reported, a few of them that reach the police, corruption gets in the way. Then you wonder, how and where should the children run when in danger if even the keepers of law and order in a society cannot help them.

For example, at the beginning of last year in Buikwe district, a two-month-old baby was defiled by her own father when the mother had gone to collect water. When the mother found a young daughter crying like hell, carried her and she was bleeding like crazy, she looked at the father and he had blood all over him. She managed to report the case to the Police, but he was released on the same day. Whenever I think about such scenarios, I wonder how God's loving hand can be extended through me to help such victims :(.

So Help me God. See you in my next post, where I will tell you about my Journey to Norway from day one till now. See you the :)