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Life for many African youths and adults has become meaningless as the wave of starvation continues to seize each and every moment. It has seen the collapse of homes, dignity and culture as people try to find ways of attaining their daily needs. People have come to a state of engaging themselves in activities that pose a risk to them and those around them in the bid of finding a cradle for their survival. Hope has been lost and they have become careless in what they do simply because they don't see themselves going on living, hence the reason the why they indulge in things that might even cost them their lives. And even if they were to die, what difference could it make?
Prostitution happens to been the most deadly and fastest way of earning money for the women. They tend to get involved in prostitution since they see it to be the easiest and perhaps only way to earn a living since most of them can hardly afford to start a small business to make them a living. Lives of girls as young as eleven years of age are put into jeopardy as they get caught into this web of sex and sodomy. Many people's lives have been cut short through this very kind of lifestyle as they tend to contract diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Many others die while trying to get illegal abortions.
The other product of the evil of prostitution to surface is an orphan. As the number of people who get infected and die of the HIV/AIDS increase, more orphans are ushered into the streets to beg for food money and other incentives that they might be in need of. Children’s futures are shattered as their family breadwinners are robbed from them by death. Most of them stop their education and enter into the streets, to be called street kids.
As these children are steered into the streets, not willingly but due to the hardships and other pressures in life, they come to learn how to survive the hard way. Few of these kids are redeemed from these streets by sympathizers but most of them end up into the jaws of the street life style of drugs, theft and armed robbery. They live in these streets unless rescued by the hand of God via death. Many are bred into street thugs that tend to terrorise people in their home or work places. They become a menace to society and before the end of it all, they find themselves either shot or imprisoned.
These young men and women that are being lost daily due to disease and other social vices are the souls that we need to enable us develop our countries. They are the energetic parties that we need to put an end to poverty.
Each time a youth dies, we are robbed of manpower that was to enable us change this world into a better place, a place where there is peace, love, harmony. Let us work hard, find ways and strategies of ending poverty before the same poverty condemns us to an early grave.
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Joseph-Peter
A wise man once told me that there are only two best weapons that you can have in this world: a pen and your mouth. The good thing about these two weapons is that they don't run out of ammunition, unless you decide to stop firing. That ammunition is words.
I am a person who is vocal but I have come to know that when I write about something, I write it with total consideration and commitment, more so than I do when talking. I have a passion for writting. I believe that scripts are capable of changing lives of many - including the author.
I trust in words and as long as I play with them in the right way, they are able to get me either into or out of any situation.
Let words battle it out for you.
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