Provide What Is Right and Decent For Our Children

 The task that we are entrusted in, is the welfare and security of our children.  They are gifts from God and if we abuse that trust we will have let them down and the Almighty in whom we have been given that trust.

We all must do our best to provide what is right and decent for our children and, by example we must lead them on to find their own paths, having instructed them in right living and thinking.

Today in this modern world, where the Internet plays such a large part of our lives, our children are more vulnerable than ever, even in our own homes.  Their online chat lines expose them to predators that are waiting to engage with them and to expose them to many things, which can remove their innocence in no time at all.

It is up to us to interact with them and to allow them to see the ways in which abuse does present itself.  No one, who has an account, is completely safe and, where children thought they had friends on their sites, they found this was not always the case.  Their own friends can and do abuse them with on-site bullying and harassment.

The predators and cyber bullying is more prevalent then we realise and so we must all be vigilant in our protection of those we love and who are vulnerable.

Children, who are bullied, often become withdrawn and angry, flying off the handle for no apparent reason. 

Cyberbullying is worse than physical bullying, because they cannot see their attackers.  It becomes a faceless crime and therefore easier to get away with it.

It is up to us, as parents and responsible adults, to protect our children and by going to the schools and colleges, even the police, situations can turn around for the better.

Help is out there and with our support and love we can return joy to our children once again and assist them in restoring their self-esteem and confidence.

We owe it to them to do our bit and protection is very much needed in this day and age, but in a different way than when we were young, but still required!

Love always finds the way!

Jenny Ayers

Friday, 27^th February 2015

There Has To Be a Stop to This Injustice

The rights of people to live in dignity in this day and age is not possible in places like India, where a class system that was devised by the British in the 1800’s, still exists today.

For those who are upper class or caste, as the terminology states, they are well off and can obtain better positions and a way of life to dream for.

Those who are at the other end of the scale, the Daltis or low caste people, are continually held in their place, which is the gutter.

Work that comprises of manual scavenging is the cleaning of human waste by communities considered low castes.

Although it is illegal in India, the caste systems still operates today, so nothing has changed for over three hundred years.

The villages that are of the low caste order devise the manual work that needs to be done.

That work consists of cleaning the gutters, cleaning excrement from the roads and toilets, cleaning the village and removing any rubbish.  It is the caste system that will not allow then to obtain anything better to do.  These people are denied their dignity.

If the men of the village do not send out their women to clean the toilets, the village council workers will beat them up.  They would even beat up the men if they stop the women doing this work.  They will not let them live in peace.

A woman, who studied commerce and banking and was well educated, was looking for work and could not find any.  The village council hired her to clean toilets, because she was from their community.

The manual carrying of human faeces is not a form of employment, but an injustice akin to slavery.  This is one of the most prominent forms of discrimination against Daltis and is central to the violation of their human rights.

Until we, as a human being, do not see the injustice of this then what is the point of it all?  We must begin to stand up and announce to the world that this kind of behaviour is no longer acceptable towards Mankind.

There has to be a stop to this injustice, as it was with slavery from Africa to North America and Gt Britain at that time.

We are all human and are all equal in the eyes of God, but sadly still not by Mankind.

We are all part of this world and all have a right to live with dignity.  We need to act and protect those whose voices can never be heard and where abject misery continues, because we have learnt to ignore it.

Jenny Ayers

Friday, 27^th February 2015