Crime Report...
Filled with grief and with a troubled heart I flipped through pages of different local newspapers the other day, one thing was common among all the articles. Crime rates are on the increase in our country and most affected are the children. Yesterday's local newspaper headline - The New Vision had a release of Crime Report statistics around Kampala and the Entire country Uganda. Details of the crime report indicated defilement, child trafficking and many children are being exploited through Child labour. In the same report, CID published that more than 12,ooo crimes are reported monthly. Today's New Vision had yet another heart breaking headline, a child was more like caned to death. There is a call for us for the cities around the world, join me in this cause.
Psalm 55:11
"Destructive forces are at work in the city, threats and lies never leave its street." Let us interceed for our countries, for our continents and for our children that peace and joy may reign once more amongst us.
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On Child trafficking and slave labor within Africa and the products we buy in the western world. World vision has found the exploitation of children are not only undergoing child labor within many of west african cocoa fields but they are specifically trafficking children into such conditions. So next time you go to buy your block of chocolate or that nice hot cocoa think about where the cocoa has come from and what you are supporting in buying such products, doesn't mean you can't have chocolate see Oxfam's website for brands which promote fair trade...See more on the World Vision website www.wvi.org
or http://www.donttradelives.com.au/dtl/Issues/Chocolate/Default.aspx
or http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23401130-5007146,00.html for a direct article
Oxfam: www.oxfam.org
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