haruna, interesting. your human side is amazing. i wrote a poem about children who grow up only with their mothers, i haven't publish it yet. i am proud of many Gambian brothers who are divorce with spouses but still take turns to look after their kid's. that is also another important thing. unfortunately, two years ago, i was in touch with an American lady who had a child with a Gambian but the marriage ended and the man moved away, the lady was looking for a Gambian to connect the child.
you raised valid points masoud.
Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I have been wondering about the affairs and plight of children who have lost
one or both parents. The query brought me to a need to identify such
children. Help me out if you can please.
I am inclined to describe orphaned children as follows:
1. Those children who have lost a Father and or Mother.
These children span all ages, from the baby who is nursing and suddenly
robbed of his or her parent/parents, to the adolescent who is on the verge of
taking epochal matriculation exams, to the adult who has relied on his or her
children's grandparents to nurture his or her own children. It runs the gamut.
Suddenly there is not the person who calls you in from play when darkness
descends or to call you to prayer. The one who answers the principal's summons
when you run roughshod of school rules or to receive your teacher's personal
commendation for your good work. The one you share with your friends when you
take turns boasting about your pedigrees. The one who recognizes you must see
a doctor/dentist when you begin losing your first teeth. The one who brags to
other parents about you or solicits counsel for you. The one who takes you
fishing, hunting, canoeing, tree-climbing, or on your first ferry-ride. The
one who cleans your nose in her mouth. The one who defends you when other
errant parents want to pin juvenile crimes on you in deference to their own
knuckleheads. The one who tells you not to climb out the window when he or she
goes to sleep just so you can join you friends at the Jafandu party.
Reminiscences. Life support.
2. Those children who are abandoned if only temporarily.
These children have at one point in their lives or for all their lives dealt
with one or both parents going away for further studies with the hope of
reunion (which desire is oft overtaken by other consideration and intervening
time and events) or exiled by rogue governance, or overseas appointments.
Perchance, there is some way to yield such children relief and afford them a
semblance of stability and continued value-life. Some of these parents may
have been the sole breadwinners of the family or may have been married to one
or more wives the latter of whom are themselves at the precipice of hunger,
despair, and possibly suicide.
I encourage my friends here to consider these children and elevate the
conversation to some meaningful secours as only the mighty and conscientious of
Ellen might be capable of. I now yield for other view/suggestion/ideas.
Thank you my friends and fambul.
Haruna.
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