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RE: Share your toughts! Global inequality

in #society7 years ago

Hey @damarth this post is not a cry for help for me. I am okay doing fine with my ability to eat two square meals a day everyday. I just recently finished my university and I am trying to find my balance in life, in terms of of employment. I come from Nigeria, a country where truly the rich are making sure the poor become poorer. The economic stance of the country is now soo bad that the average man can no longer afford three square meals a day. But this is not where I am headed, on my way to church I normally pass a charity home that takes care of children whose parents abandoned them, more popularly referred to as the orphanage home or the fatherless and motherless childrens home. I have been passing there for a while but lack the incentive to go in mostly because I don't have enough to give them, not to even mention myself. This things hurts me deeply inside of me because I myself am an orphan. My parents were once wealthy and as fate would have it, they died in a motor accident, till today I still think they were setup. This world you see is a very cruel place. I was 6 years old st the time and the only child of my parents. Family members divided my parents properties and left me in the care of a very wicked and bitter uncle. You would think I was the cause of his misfortunes. It seemed like everywhere I go, bad things happen. I ended up running away from my uncle and hustling on the streets. I am not proud to say I picked pockets to feed sometimes when I just couldn't bear it. As fate would have it i was discovered by a non-governmental organization (DREAM ALIVE). They put me through school to be who I am today and am forever grateful to them. I started doing small business of selling water and graduated to delivery business, that was how I helped myself through university, although with the help of some members of DREAM ALIVE who BE believed in me after seeing how I passed in my secondary school year. God has been gracious towards me, even finding my way to Steemit. So you see why it pains me that I am not able to do one or two things for these children. I have never really told anyone online my true life story before because I don't want them to pity me or look down on me. Thank you for the opportunity and I hope to be able to impact too just as I was impacted upon.