Most already know what is going on in Haiti, please help however you can. If you text YELE to 501501, $5 will be automatically added to your cell phone bill. You can also click the picture to be taken to a secure page on Wyclef's site where you can donate online.
Also check out CNN.com/Impact for more ways to donate.
God Bless Haiti!
I haven't forgotten the mission of this blog. I haven't even been updating as I've just been bookmarking the news stories of interest.
Foundation plans are on hold as of the moment, but it's only temporary, other areas all of a sudden have more pressing needs. I've disabled commenting in the interim, I'll still update with articles every now and then and God willing, at some point in the future I'll be unveiling a website.
There's a lot of things in the works, but it's all in due time and as I've come to learn, in God's time. In the meantime, I'm on twitter (see link to your right) and have a cooking blog I update more frequently (see above).
That's it for now folks, just wanted to give an explanation as to my blog whereabouts!
I'm quite sure most people must have heard of this outrageous story out of Phoenix, AZ. An eight year old Liberian girl was raped by 2 Liberian boys aged 9-14. She was lured into a shed on July 16 with the promise of getting a stick of gum.
It's bad enough that she was raped at EIGHT years old, but what's even worse is that her parents' disowned her for bringing the family to shame.
Honestly, I don't get that. I know it's got to be rooted in tradition and culture, but she is EIGHT and at EIGHT, she probably knew nothing about intercourse. So, for them to disown her at a time when she should be brought closer to the family fold and nurtured so she could get over the trauma, she is being disowned by her family. I watched the clip on CNN where the mother, sister and some male relative were interviewed and I don't want to be mean, but it's just ignorance. The mother was just in denial that nothing happened to her child. I mean seriously?!!!!
How do you justify the rape of an eight year old girl in your mind?! She is not eighteen, she's eight. She's not even in double-digit age range yet. She's so young and a child at that. She didn't ask to be raped!
The girl in question is now under the care of Arizona Child Protective Service (ACPS) and they have been fielding numerous phone calls of people wanting to help and even adopt the girl. It's so outrageous that even the President of Liberia, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf, said the family was in the wrong and that a child that has been traumatized needs help not neglect.
I can rant on and on about the mess that is this situation, but I'll leave it at that. I sincerely hope this child, this raped eight year old girl gets appropriate help, the juveniles are brought to justice and she is adopted by a caring family that will smother her with love.
Read more here.
Read more here
So sad. I cry like I knew the man. However, we shouldn't mourn him, we should celebrate his life and the legacy he's left through his music.
He's in a better place away from his detractors. The peace he didn't find on earth, he's finally found.
CNN
BBC
His You Tube Channel
6/25/09...2:26pm
Rest in Peace Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
***update here***
I haven't seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire, but it racked a bunch of Oscar awards and is reported to be an extremely good movie. It thus goes without saying that this movie must have made the producers a lot of money, not so?
So why was the home of one of the young actors, Azharuddin Mohammed, demolished by the Indian city authorities and most importantly why oh why are they homeless? They reportedly smacked the boy in the head before proceeding to demolish the home in Mumbai.
The movie's director, Danny Boyle has denied charges of exploitation but man please, give me a break. The only thing done so far for the children was to enroll them in school for the very first time, which in itself is a good thing, but for a movie that grossed over $200m, are they not supposed to be relatively well off?
Would child actors here like Dakota Fanning be paid peanuts? Hell to the no, so why these children? Are they any different because they're Indian? I'm enraged, it's some major bs and highly unfair.
Slumdog millionaire, an oxymoron indeed.
Read more: BBC, CNN
Apo Six is the name given to six individuals who were brutally murdered by the Nigerian police in Abuja on June 7-8, 2005.
The deceased are:
Ekene Isaac Mgbe
Ifeanyin Ozor
Chinedu Meniru
Paulinus Ogbonna and
Anthony and Augustina Arebu
Below is the timeline of the murders:
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