preventing child abuse...

19 November - World Day for
Prevention of Child Abuse



let us all work and pray for a happy, enjoyable and safe childhood for all the vulnerable children in our society, country and across the globe...

Get Involved Locally in
Advocating for the Rights of Children - ARC

also see United Nations'
Convention on the Rights of the Child - CRC
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fanditha hadhaa meehaa....

i asked what they were drawing on the ground...

"fanditha hadhaa meeheh", one of them quickly replied...
(i.e. a black magician)







meanwhile... Shahaa was more interested in wiping off her friends' drawings...

a time comes when silence is betrayal...

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that time has come for us...

- Martin Luther King Jr, click here to listen to excerpts of this famous speech






recently in our news:
- Eight-month-old baby beaten to death
- Criminal past of dead baby's mother revealed
- Paedophile attack sparks awareness march
- Man arrested for sexually abusing step-daughter

the walking school bus...

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i think it'll be cool to have walking school buses in our country... of course, the environment's gotta be made less hostile towards children to begin with...

(the photos are from my flick)

hula hoop kid....

this clip was taken by me in Veymandoo island in 2007.... almost every school kid owned a hula hoop.... and were really really good at it too...

a failed society....

A society can be judged by how it treats its weak...

true, it is the parents' duty to take care of their kids.....

but what if they don't?? what if they won't??? or simply cannot??