tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post5300748110063598064..comments2024-03-11T22:00:04.309-07:00Comments on Life and Spirituality : The American Crisis - children on the borders Ashok http://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-52063084383660546542015-08-31T16:04:52.660-07:002015-08-31T16:04:52.660-07:00More recently the tragedy of children in Gaza and ...More recently the tragedy of children in Gaza and Syria has been heart breaking too. What is surprising is that while technology has advanced hugely in the world over the last century, human values have slid drastically and as always the most vulnerable suffer the most, little children being the most vulnerable and worst off, whereas they are the sweetest in creation with souls of angels. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-31903646764679175912015-08-31T16:02:06.992-07:002015-08-31T16:02:06.992-07:00Very well said Vinod. Some of the inhumanity of th...Very well said Vinod. Some of the inhumanity of the modern world really shocks the sensibilities of many in the world. Yet there are others who come forward to help and the UN did play a great role in this case as did many NGOs including Kind. President Obama too made great initiatives to help despite opposition from within and recently the courts too have helped with the Supreme court ruling that children can not be put in detention. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-45809826013120322872015-08-31T01:26:10.275-07:002015-08-31T01:26:10.275-07:00Dear Ashok ji,
What disturbs me most,how such a...Dear Ashok ji,<br /> What disturbs me most,how such an open democracy can be so inhuman. Law may be blind but it's never inhuman. What if a similar tragedy happened on their side of the border and the people had to flee on the other side to save their lives.Hope better sense prevails and UN also steps in. It's heartening to note that some good people have volunteered to adopt some of these children. May God bless these noble souls. Vinod Khuranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11680960114630585329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-89497015247452636402015-08-29T20:08:34.904-07:002015-08-29T20:08:34.904-07:00As a result of a discussion today morning on twitt...As a result of a discussion today morning on twitter, my attention was drawn to this note of last year again and therefore i revisited it, edited a bit and shared again on Google plus and twitter because it appears to be still relevant. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-87577915016032028542014-07-18T02:39:04.605-07:002014-07-18T02:39:04.605-07:00OK Kerry, best wishesOK Kerry, best wishes Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-51590126487144373852014-07-18T01:18:52.529-07:002014-07-18T01:18:52.529-07:00Thank you Ashok,
I will contact them. Can you emai...Thank you Ashok,<br />I will contact them. Can you email me ifs you happen upon anyone who is in the trenches, one on one down there who is advocating and trying to get and knows not to get these kids in a better situation. I. Com uncaring with a couple chuches.. One is very large, who is asking me to let them know what I find out..<br />Thank you so much<br />KerryKerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12857059740435803101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-56771062189523147352014-07-16T22:12:48.486-07:002014-07-16T22:12:48.486-07:00Kerry, The organisation known as KIND has been doi...Kerry, The organisation known as KIND has been doing a lot of good work for these children. Please try and locate them through google search or net. You may also find them on twitter to begin with at https://twitter.com/supportKIND (just copy that link in your browser to reach that and then you will find more links to proceed. Best wishes. Your sentiment are appreciated. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-76846119205335371802014-07-16T21:17:19.614-07:002014-07-16T21:17:19.614-07:00Hello,
My name is Kerry Melton. I am a San Diegan ...Hello,<br />My name is Kerry Melton. I am a San Diegan transplanted to Gettysburg Pa. I don't know where to turn to find info and I'm hoping you might be able to help. <br />I have been sadly watching the events unfold on the Mexican/American border. It's keeping me up at night worrying about all those children. My husband and I were been trained as special needs foster parents in WV. I also worked for years teaching special needs and kindergarten children in the Kanawha County School District in WV.. We no longer live there. We now live in Gettysburg PA ( moved here to get my son help). I'm now a stay at home mom/grandmother. My husband has been working for Verizon (not wireless) for over 20 yrs we live in a 4 bedroom (actually 5, but I converted one into my studio where I create) home that's becoming an empty nest.<br /> I'm wondering if there are any opportunities for us to help out in anyway. To foster/sponsor some of these children who are here and need a place to land and be safe, while in our country. Every child has the right to be in a safe, dependable and nurturing environment. I have been thinking and worry about the damage that's happening to a lot of these children, being in a constant state of fear and uncertainty and being without their loved ones who have been their source of love and security. I cant understand how so many people are being hateful toward these kids. Do they forget what America was like 300 yrs ago? About who the land they live on belonged to then.<br /><br />I'm also very disappointed that there isn't information out there to connect people to organizations were they can volunteer time, hone, food and love. It sounds like many of these kids are in prison situations. <br /><br />My degree is in criminal Justice and I spend years working as a youth care worker and in both a lockdown facility for kids who have committed serious crimes and then as child care worker working in a shelter for run aways and over flow from the juvinille justice center. I chose that career, because I had. Son who has Oppositional Defiant Disorder, ADHD and Bipolar. I wanted to gain the skills needed to give him the best chance possible. I did everything I could think of to make sure I did that. Even going as far as moving 300 miles from my husband living in a long distance marriage, so I could bring him back to Gettysburg. I knew the programs they had here. Where I lived (Charleston WV) there were do intensive or any real programs for children in need. My son is now 25 and on his own supporting his fiancée' and my 3 yr old grand daughter. I feel I can do the same for other children who need love and understanding.<br /><br />I also worry about the care of women in custody who may be pregnant and need care and education. I am a DONA trained Doula. I was trained by DONA and worked with midwives from Women Care in Charleston WV and strongly believe no pregnant women should be living in the conditions they are now in.<br /><br />I was watching Anderson Cooper the other night and he did a piece about a woman who was from Fla and is helping a bunch of these kids, but I don't know who to get into contact with to find out how to do it. If she can do test, I'm thinking there has to be things other people can do on a smaller scale.i just need to find someone who can help me find an organization who is organizing help for the refugees.<br /><br />If there are any organizations, groups, or small pods of people who are helping the people get the help they need, could you point me in their direction?<br /><br />Sincerely<br /><br />Kerry Melton<br />www.facebook.com/kerraboo2<br />Kerraboo2@aol.com Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12857059740435803101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-73887025991088032442014-07-06T19:26:19.618-07:002014-07-06T19:26:19.618-07:00If there were more people like you Whisper with co...If there were more people like you Whisper with compassion in their hearts the world would be much nicer place. Unfortunately other issues like politics, hate, race etc. take precedence with some. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-32670924327197739432014-07-06T18:16:18.844-07:002014-07-06T18:16:18.844-07:00Why can we not set up a system like Britain did ri...Why can we not set up a system like Britain did right before the second world war? <br />My family would happily take in a child or two and cover their costs. <br /> As a parent my situation would have to be unspeakably dire to send my child away alone. I can only imagine the heartbreak. I'd want a family somewhere to watch my baby until I could see them again.WhisperDeCorvohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16125629427638404316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-15345455452313072102014-07-01T19:15:50.060-07:002014-07-01T19:15:50.060-07:00Just now this article was edited removing some of ...Just now this article was edited removing some of its strongest parts that are not appropriate to retain if innocent children are not being ill treated and steps are being taken for their care. Some such appears to have begun it would seem from some reports now. The important thing is to treat these children with love and care until issues are examined and not the reverse, because ill treat or even a neglect of a child that is in distress and unprotected by guardians or other caring adults is a really very horrifying thought to any human with the least of humanity in their hearts. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-37600309958424968712014-06-30T10:00:15.506-07:002014-06-30T10:00:15.506-07:00Mrs McFierscon thank you. Your words are indeed ve...Mrs McFierscon thank you. Your words are indeed very reassuring. Hope many more such voices rise so the right thing is done by these children.<br /><br />Sending some back to their parents could be a good idea if the home they came from is not a broken one or another ruined by drugs or death. However, very many may not be or the children would not have left in the first place. The normal human experience is that a child is much attached to a home and parents much attached to children. Something very wrong and very awful is going on there.<br /><br />People in the rest of the world get the news. they have little to do with politics, but we all worry because we have had our own children and felt very distressed at their minor travails too. Nothing like this, which would have been mind boggling had it happened to my children.<br /><br />Perhaps some are finding this burdensome on the economy but a good deed does produce good results in the long run and even in the short run it could be turned out into a job creation measure. I mentioned some such thing in the post immediately after this one. The first thing that is required though is to open ones heart to these sweet little angels.<br /><br />My experience of life is that children up to 5 are fully innocent, the very picture of the Lord or love and it is only later slowly that things like ego etc. begin to interfere with that godliness but slowly, and much innocence remain as long as a child is a minor. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-37515849568732986192014-06-30T03:26:16.708-07:002014-06-30T03:26:16.708-07:00I agree, it's a heartbreaking crisis. I don...I agree, it's a heartbreaking crisis. I don't want most of these children sent back to whatever horrific situation they were in before. The US needs to carry some responsibility, our discrete yet financial backing of the coup against Manuel Zeleya, our war on drugs which pushed Mexico into a militarized war on drugs. It's a complex scenario and it's so irritating to read the US media's approach of republican vs democrat, as if it's just some political scheme that has everything to do with the US govt red and blue, overshadowing the plights of these children.mrsMcFiersconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355030258113758670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292614577950697575.post-12319751833197162682014-06-29T10:17:12.171-07:002014-06-29T10:17:12.171-07:00Although this post got a lot of views so as to bec...Although this post got a lot of views so as to become the most read one this month, many views from America as the stats revealed. Links of it were communicated to President Obama, John Boehner and several others that cn play a role in the issue through twitter. However so far there are no comments. Hopefully this is because it has been realized that while some issues require debate, others such as this one require urgent action to alleviate the suffering of very young children in distress. There have been signs of some such urgent action through other media to bring a little assurance to persons seriously worried about the issue around the world, for there are humans who see an image of their own child in any child in distress anywhere. Ashok https://www.blogger.com/profile/13678997673056672234noreply@blogger.com