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orangeguru discovered 7 months ago- (click image to see more UNICEF photos of 2007) Afghanistan - he is 40, she is 11. She was sold by her parents, because they needed the money. Still girls are treated like a commodity in many countries or simply sold as sex slaves. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair) All the images are taken from here: unicef.org. Go there and read more in detail about the stories behind each kid. After watching all that pain porn you should be ready to give some money and not just a sentimental sigh in front of your computer. Do something! I highly recommend SPONSORING a kid all year long - and not just for that special Christmas feel good moment. How about five Euros or Dollars each month? That's not much - but already some REAL money in many poor countries. Have a look at the video on this page for some insight or more motivation: www.plan-uk.org There are many charities for kids out there: www.children.org, www.sos-childrensvillages.org, www.worldvision.org and www.unicef.org. Thank you!
- androidny rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Afghanistan - he is 40, she is 11. She was sold by her parents, because they needed the money. Still girls are treated like a commodity in many countries or simply sold as sex slaves. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair)" In all fairness, I don't want to seem to be picking on just one pedophile riddled sky-god cult... (No offense to all you other non-pedophile sky-god people).
- SKURS rated 4 months ago
- he is 40, she is 11. SICKO!! What??
- patoloco rated 4 months ago
- Afghanistan - he is 40, she is 11. She was sold by her parents, because they needed the money. Still girls are treated like a commodity in many countries or simply sold as sex slaves. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair)
- KahlilaGibran rated 7 months ago
The photos chosen by UNICEF as images
of the year are all stunning but this was
different in that the child doesn't come
from a poor family.
He is simply watching TV.
While the comment is made that TV brainwashes
or makes kids into zombies I have often
thought it is far worse than that.
While parents may monitor the programs
they let children watch, far more damage
is being done (in my opinion) by the ads
in between. They are jarringly aggressive.
And videos and DVDs aimed at
kids (or "families") are often saturated
with ads and trailers that assault
the senses from all directions.
Even as a nine-year-old I was traumatised
by my parents' quarrels and fearful
that the foundations of everything
I knew were falling apart.
Imagine what effect shouting, violence
and over-stimulation must have
on much younger children.
Do I need to be a
child psychologist to know it
must be making them agitated?
And am I right in thinking
young kids these days seem
very prone to fits, tantrums
and violent mood changes?
- larissa05 rated 7 months ago
- SEE THE FEAR IN HER EYES!!! The UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007, draws attention to a worldwide problem. Millions of girls are married while still in childhood. In this photo, a 40 year old Afgan man marries an 11 year old girl. She was sold by her parents, because they needed the money. Still girls are treated like a commodity in many countries or simply sold as sex slaves. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair)
- spix14 rated 7 months ago
- only because this guy need literacy lessons. the cause is a good one.
- droe82 rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "Still girls are treated like a commodity in many countries or simply sold as sex slaves."
Maybe they could get away if they weren't so still. - From the page: "Still girls are treated like a commodity in many countries or simply sold as sex slaves."
- Shelly41 rated 7 months ago
- Sponsor a child in need, especially those who are sold as sex slaves and abused. Afghanistan - he is 40, she is 11. She was sold by her parents, because they needed the money. Still girls are treated like a commodity in many countries or simply sold as sex slaves. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair)
- lisabal rated 7 months ago
- Orangeguru has an article in his Ultraorange blog featuring today a post on the needs of children throughout the world, from food and shelter to emotional and future welfare. The photos and the comments and stories behind them are worth a look and he has included a number of links, if anyone would like to help make a difference, something that may seem worthwhile as an antidote to the Christmas spendfest. The photos are from the Unicef International Photo competition - Images of Extremes. I have chosen the two photos below as an illustration of children who are in need, although I don't believe there is any call for donations for the second one only a call for awareness. Smokey Mountain - Children of a charcoal burners' camp in Manila From the Unicef page: "On her ninth birthday, Annalyn S.* was photographed by German photographer Hartmut Schwarzbach, happily jumping on a red sofa that she had found on the garbage dump near the city of Manila (Philippines). It has been three years now that Annalyn and her family have lived beside Manila's enormous garbage dump called "Aroma Smokey Mountain". That's where her family lives in a charcoal burners' camp. Like most other children in this camp, Annalyn has to search for wood among the garbage every day, bring it to an oven and monitor the charcoal production amidst acrid smoke and unbearable heat" Children Watching TV From the Unicef page: Transfixed little faces, empty stares, doll-like figures. The photographer Wolfram Hahn took pictures of German children between 3 and 12 years while watching TV. If you watch adults watching TV, you might still laugh at their oafish expressions. But if children sit in front of the tube for hours and hours, drowning in apathy, they look like eerie little puppets bereft of all spirit. "
