Street Children (Eritrea)

The radio station “Domradio” says that yesterday in the afternoon about 4.000 citizens of Hambourg demonstrated for the right of about 300 Lampedusa-refugees to stay as there are plans to deport them. I decided to post these news here, because I know that at least one of these 300 is from Eritrea.

The aid-organisation “Pro Asyl” says that the night before January 21st 12 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea died when the Greek coastguard tried to illegally push back their boat to the closest neighboring country, namely Turkey. The boat sank before they reached the coast there and thus mostly women and underage people drowned. Of course Greece gave the public a different description of this event that however doesn’t seem too realistic. According to “Pro Asyl” they said for example that these coastguards had tried to save the passengers by bringing them to the Turkish coast when they had seen that this boat had been in trouble. However two of these refugees had jumped off the boat and thus had made it turn over.
This version has many plot holes as it fails to explain why the coastguards didn’t just bring the damaged boat to the Greek coast – instead of carrying them to the Turkish coast – as soon as they saw that these refugees were in trouble. Secondly it makes absolutely no sense that two refugees who probably couldn’t even swim would jump into the ice-cold water in the middle of winter during their rescue.

The radio station “Domradio” now reported about a refugee from Eritrea who after a long journey ended up in Switzerland where he lived under very poor conditions for many years. Now the Swiss Red Cross heard about him and they immediately offered him a job as a carer for the elderly. Right now he absolves an apprenticeship for his new job.

According to the German newspaper “Focus” the Italian coastguard found another boat that contained refugees just yesterday. The 207 migrants came from Nigeria, Ghana and Eritrea. Among them were 6 children and 35 women. Here it should be said that Eritrea is the only LDC of these three countries. Nigeria and Ghana are “only” Developing Countries, which means that they are wealthier than Eritrea, but still poor.
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Reupload: According to the website where I found it, this photo shows Eritrean street children. If you want to know more about them and about an organisation that helps them, you definetly should visit this website “http://www.streetkids.org/”.

Reuploaded appeal of mine: Please! Please! Please! You would do me the greatest favor by at least just reading this. If you don’t have the time to read anything, then at least read the last clause, please. Thank you!
I know the following doesn’t even affect this country. However I want as many people as possible to be informed about this subject and after all the fact that here homosexuals even get locked away may have influenced the following: In 2011 there was a discussion in Uganda about whether or not death penalty shall get reintrodiced and if people also should be sentenced to death for being gay. International protests ( also and especially from Obama, the president of the USA ) made them abandon this discussion for the moment. However now they decided to recontinue and if we don’t intervene they are going to kill people simply for behaving according to their nature. Yes, for natural behaviour, because homosexuality can be found everywhere! There are reports and footage proving that homosexuality can be found in the animal kingdom, too. They even filmed intelligent animals, like whales, dolphins or primates which showed homosexual behavior. So you can’t say that this is condemnable, because of being against nature. They say that this is condemnable, because the Old Testament condemns it. When an US-American Christian theologian held a speech about why homosexualty was condemnable according to the OT she received a letter saying something like “What do you think. How much money should I ask for when I sell my daughter into slavery? Because that’s exactly what one sentence written in the Old Testament allows me to do. How should I kill my uncle for growing two things in one and the same field?” You can’t just fix a whole theological theory on one single quotation. 1 Thess 5,21 even says that we should firstlky test it an only keep it if it’s still good. I don’t want to go any further. If you really want to know why I – a strictly religious lady – am against discriminating homosexuals and even think that my religion tells me to do so, then you should read “http://www.englishbaby.com/findfriends/view_photo/596319?page=4”. It’s the comment of 03:13 AM Mar 08 2011.
However David Bahari, a member of Uganda’s parlament as well as of its ruling party also had a comment in favour of this upcoming law, saying that homosexualty could destroy family structures and tolerating homosexuals could have a bad influence on children. I agree on the first comment. Even most younger people still have problems trying to accept “gays” as some still circulating jokes about homosexuals prove. Also organisations like “La Refugee” that adopt adolescents who got abandoned by their parents simply for being gay prove that homosexuals have serious trouble trying to fit in even into their own family. However this could also be considered as a social problem rather than a problem caused by homosexuals. After all the history of Judaism also is full of discrimination, persecutiion and not just one genocide and today nobody would say that the Jews were to blame for what happened to them. Only real nerds would still walk around saying something stupid like “Well, if these Jews hadn’t been Jews none would have killed them. So the problem obviously was that they were Jewish!”
His second comment however sounded like – excuse the word – rubbish to me. I’m sorry, but what sort of influence does he imagine here? That a kid who gets asked why he / she is gay could defend this attitude of his / her by saying “But Peter from 9th grade is homosexual, too. So I make love to someone of my sex, because I want to be like him.”?
What about another example? Nearly all children have an idol and usually this is a movie or a pop star. Does Bahari really think that if one of these stars was gay, a child of under ten years would say “Gee! When I’m grown up, I want to be gay, too.”? I suppose – or at least I hope – not! This would be just ridiculous.
If you want to do something against this madness then please sign the following petitions or inform others about them:
“http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/27844/”
“https://secure.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition/”
We beat Uganda’s anti-gay bill once! I’m sure we can beat it twice and – if necessary – three times. Thank you for your support!