Street Children

When you hear the word street children, what usually comes into to your mind? Do you think that they are the rugby boys? Or do you think that they are the children who are bothering you because of asking money? Yes they are out there in the streets calling for justice and dreaming of having a comfortable life! When you see them, do feel sorry for them? Or maybe you are avoiding them because they might steal something from you? Why don’t you put yourself in their place? Why don’t you see for yourself the situation that they are in? Many people say that children are the hope for our country. But how can they be the hope of our country if they are already hopeless? They already think of themselves as nothing! I know that street children are really that bad. They are just influenced by teenagers that are also influenced by the wicked world. They are thinking of themselves that there’s no hope for them to have a new, and peaceful life. They are having a hard time in having a dream for themselves. They are lost! They need our help! But are we helping them? We are afraid to help them because we think that they are wicked. But don’t you know that they have also feelings? They are just hiding their fear because if they show their fear, they are not going to be accepted in a group. And besides, they think that when they show their fear, they are not in within a place. I know that deep inside their hearts, they are also afraid, but they manage not to show it. They are just hiding their fear.

Women and children are just associated to each other, because both of them are treated as second-class. Children are also helpless because they are not yet expose to the world and what is it all about. And if they are already expose to the world, they are going to be influence by the wicked world. The same with the women, children are also treated as minors. Just like I wrote above, how can they be the hope for our country if they, themselves lack hope? How can they be the future leaders if they are not guided the way for them to be a leader? Isn’t unfair for the children’s part to have a life like that, wherein they are wasting their time of doing nothing? Wasting their time doing some things that will destroy their lives?

Everyday, we can see lots of children walking along the streets bring with them a sack to look for garbage that can still be use, so that they can sell it. Look at their hands! There hands are supposed to be holding a pencil. Look at their feet! Their feet are supposed to wear school shoes. Their life must have an importance because they are the hope of our country. They are supposed to be in school! In school! Where they can learn a lot for their future!