This Bird Is Sitting On A Tree In The Rainforest Of Sierra Leone.

Related to my previous post from 05:36 PM Jul 08 2021: Fun fact! The newspaper ‘GEA’ says that in a similar case from the same village the very same week a lady in fact did call the fire brigade to free a baby bird from a very deep and dark basement shaft. The difference was that in this case she couldn’t see the bird, but only heard its chirping. So needless to say she was worried that maybe she was wrong and the bird was not trapped, because in Germany you need to pay a fine for calling the fire brigade for no reason. She was worried that the men from the fire brigade wouldn’t believe her that her intentions were good. They probably would think she just tried to prank them. In fact as it turned out she did misunderstand the scene and the bird was not in danger, but rather lived in this shaft. To her relieve however they believed her and didn’t make her pay.

Sorry! I didn’t know where else to post this, but I really want to post this, so: The local newspaper says that this week in my home village Dettingen a baby bird fell through a storm drain. The owner of the house this storm drain belonged to of course tried to save the bird, but scared as the animal was it ran off when he tried to free it from the sewer – and it fell into a part of the sewer that was so tinn that no human hand would fit through to get this bird out. Sadly the house owner didn’t consider – I mean it didn’t cross his mind – to call the fire brigade. Yes, they also save wild animals. None really knows what happened to the bird later. All we know is that its calls for its mom suddenly stopped the day after. Even if it didn’t survive I at least hope that a small predator like a rat or a marten got through the grill and killed it.
There are sewer grills with gaps wide enough for a small bird or mammal to accidentally slip through and there are those that are so closed-meshed that even a mouse would have to squeeze to get through. Thus if it’s in your power, please make sure that the storm drain near your house has a closed-meshed sewer grill.

>Today in church I heard that on September 9th in the Roman-Catholic Pauluskirche in Neckartenzlingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany there is going to be a book sale at 10 AM to collect money for a church community in Hungary.
>Today in church I heard that on September 14th at 7:30 PM in the Roman-Catholic church ‘Martinskirche’ in Metzingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany there was going to be a beneficial concert by an orchestra. They want to collect donation money for the aid-organisation ‘German Doctors’. This aid-organisation is just like ‘Doctors Without Borders’, but focusing on Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Sierra Leone and the Philippines only.

Another reupload: The following article is about one thing Sierra Leone and Nigeria – as well as Congo, Tanzania, Malawi and some other LDCs – have in common:”In Nigeria some extremely dangerous Christian sects have been developing during the last few years. They gain more and more power and thus nearly every Nigerian – especially from urban areas – believes in their strange stories about witchcraft and how especially children and babies “are very likely to become diabolical and evil”.
Sam Ikpe-Itauma is one of the few people in this area who does not believe what the evangelical “prophets” are preaching. He opened his house to a few children who got chased away from home, because they were accused of being witches. Now he tries his best to look after 131 children. The survival of each of them is a miracle to me. I read that some parents even tried to kill their “so evil witch-” children by pouring acid in their throats, by burrying them alive, by tying them to some tree in the wild, by drawing one or more nails through the son’s or daughter’s head or – in the case of a toddler I read about – by just abandoning them without food or water. Plus they usually did so after some “priest” practiced his own form of “exorcism” on them, by starving them or by doing other things that would weaken these mentally and physically still developing children. As I said these 131 didn’t just live – which would have been amazing enough -, but they also got help and found a new home – which is very unusual in a country where many people consider it as something that goes without saying that little babies can be possesed by the devil and commit sins like murder.
“http://www.hopeislife.org/archives/100.html” belongs to an organisation that supports Sam Ikpe-Itauma and shows people how to get involved.
Two further websites that aren’t less usefull are “http://www.steppingstonesnigeria.org/donate.html” and “http://www.africa-outreach.org/”.
Some say that we shouldn’t help countries like Nigeria, but boycott them as a punishment. However I think this would make everything worse, wouldn’t it? After all these “Christians” blame every single famine, disease etc. on children and thus they won’t even understand when we boycott them.”

The Gola Forest is the largest area of lowland rain forest remaining in Sierra Leone, and is one of the most important sites for the conservation of many precious (because endangered) specimens.