Sadden

I was doing my commskills homework which was to write a letter of appeal. The scenario of my letter is to appeal to raise funds for the needy families of Philippines that were affected by the typhoon recently. Okay so basically, i admit i didnt know much about the typhoon so i started researching and googling. Got the death toll numbers and such and then i venture into searching for a charitable organisation thats helping the poor and unfortunate.

I found this organisation which had a video of the life of people. Sounds boring right? Like our life revolves around school, games, food, tv, junkfood, dota, clubbing, partying, etc.. and i always complain how mundane my life is which is super hyprocritical after i watched the video.

But no they werent the lives of fortunate lucky people but, the lives of the people who were crying for help.

This video made me hold back my tears as the video roll second by second.
Every 15 seconds, some child dies of water related disease.
There are 140 million children below 18 years old, without 1 parent or both.
12 million people are in sex trafficking and are exploited in the sex trade.
200 000 children 7-15 both male and female are exploited into sex trade in Thailand. That means 548 a day and 1 children every 4 minutes.

The sex trafficking part really took a toll on me. Its really painful to know that children as young as 7 are forced into having sex.

When i was 7, i was so gullible, playing hopscotch, 5 stones, collecting pokemon cards. When these children are 7, they are locked in a room, forced to watch porn so as to know what to do when some dirty sick fuck wants to bed them.

REALLY PAINS ME TO KNOW THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL SUFFERING.

So next time when you think your life is the worst, think again. There are thousands and thousands of children out there there that have lives that are 10 times worst than yours.