Montag, 2. Februar 2009

Vicious circle of poverty and an economic crisis united

hey everyone...

well .. I have basically been rising above these days... work is pretty hard on me these days....
I have told some of you, that 2 of my kids died 2 weeks ago.
Carla was 16 years old... she got raped by 4 guys under the bridge, downtown.... after her violation they took a knife and killed her.
Pablito... was already 19 years old... he supposably died from the cold .. that is what the newspaper said but it can be assumed, that he died from an overdosis of resistol. last week ... one of my kids (dennie funal) commited suicide...we were on the way to bring him to an institution for drug addicts... and on the way he takes out a bottle of resistol and i tell him... either the good way... where we can still help him... or the way where we have to close the doors for him because he s been abusing casa alianza.... well he picked the wrong way ...because 2 hours later we get a calll that he s in front of the hospital and about to jump from a bridge... :(... again... something that i feel responsible for... but my colleges told me that I shouldnt because it was out of our hands... if drug addicts dont see the necessity of their change.. we can not force them neither.

all these destinies are so unjustified. Because if we think about it, just for a while. They were all victims of society and an improperly working government. (*censorship*) If they bother enough to put more effort to improve public education and support families in need, Pablo and Carla may still be alive. The vicious circle of capitalism still goes on. It seems like, we are running around in circles backwards, with no end. Once one sees poverty to the extend, where kids are looking for toys in the trash, were child labour so normal, where workers rights are violated to the extreme that one assumes that the phrase of "human rights" is a foreign word... that is the point where one keeps asking in what kind of luxury we live, without even realising it.

NGOS have very good intentions. But when the staff is not supposed to have a trade union (they did have one years ago, but the representatives got paid well enough to shut up and resolve the trade union which was supposed to represent the workers) and violated unconcsiously the labour rights. When even though the minimum wage was raised from 4400 Lempira (170 Euro) to 5500 Lempira (210 Euro) and this is not executed, even worst... the workers only get 4000 Lempira minimum wage.... that is not fair.
But I cant help asking myself whether it is worth to fight for principles and rights if in the end it would mean getting fired and joining the poorer getting poorer and being unable to escape the vicious circle of the economic crisis in the world?...

xoxo

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