Yes we have orphans and many people who beg along the streets.We give them some food.Some charitable organisations also help in one way or the other.But how long can this be?
We tend to ask,how did our forefathers solve such problems?Is it that we are missing something in this world of ours?
My grandfather and fathers told me that in Africa they didnot have such problems of orphans.
"People are selfish now and have no regard for one another.
He said in the past people ate together.When the food had been cooked,children were eating together women were eating togethar and men were also eating together, the whole village.
"If it is a household of two or three or four brothers, they were eating together.In that way even if someone lost both parents, he or she was assured he will find the food.
Boys were sleeping in one house and girls the same.This meant an orphan was assured of accomodation.The orphan was always given a foster parent within the village, smeone who had love to take care of schooling for the boy or girl.
Those things are no more.Not because of lack of resources but because people have become very selfish.
People always had in mind that there is someone somewhere who is looking at all what someone is doing .This helped people to stick to meta ethics .The world was therefore a pleasant place.
If there was a problem of thefts,the community would come together to find solutions.What do you here now?everybody for herself or himself !
Unless the world community stops looking at each other as beasts,we will still have wars,the problem of orphans and many other problems.
Love does not know boundaries.Is it possible?Can this generation do the same?
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