Because You're A Woman

Happy New Year

I have just received yet another of those pretty, pretty u tube videos which show the beauty of our world by slow moving camera play on mountains and lakes, oceans and plains, whilst baby wild animals tumble and play, or wild horses gallop along a beach;  beautiful choral music playing in the background. And yes these videos do remind us what an amazing, stunning and diverse world we live in.

But what about our responsibility for this world? What about showing the neglect of millions of children whose lives are one of constant deprivation. Homeless, loveless, starving, cold and in many instances abused. The street children of Columbo who scavenge amongst the rubbish heaps and gutters for scraps of food. Little girls in Thailand who are prostituted for the satisfaction of American and German tourists. Children thrown into bare and uncaring orphanages where they are left in cots, to amuse themselves - deprived of conversation or physical contact.

Perhaps at New Year we should all be looking at this ugly underbelly of the world in which we live and remind ourselves that so much more needs to be done before it truly can be called “A beautiful world!”