The Cry for Hope!

I am a child who has no father
I am a deserted child of a sick widow
I am a hawker on the street
I am a cart-pusher in the market
I have been reduced to a poor, indigent child

I did not want it
I did not attract it
I did not cry for it
I did not pray for it

But I find myself in this situation of misery and grief
One i don’t pray for anyone
I find it difficult to feed one good meal a day
I consult the dustbins and trash
I close my eyes to sleep
not on a bed/mat, but on an abandoned carton on the street

I watch others get educated
Speak good English
I watch them see their dreams come true
I wonder when mine will be due for consideration

I cry each day
I pray someone, somewhere, will hear, see and be felt by my cry
I cry for a meaning to LIFE
I cry for a future
I CRY FOR HOPE!

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About Flickers of Hope

A non- profit, NGO registered with the corporate Affairs Commission RC 43149 on February 2011. The Organization was established in 2010 primarily with the burden to give hope to the hopeless removing young hawkers from the street and putting them back in schools.

• Nigeria accounts for 45% out-of-school children in West Africa, says UNICEF - February 14, 2019
• The implications of Out-of-School Children - February 12, 2019
• Ekiti Government to Arrest Parents of Pupils Hawking During School Hours - January 29, 2019
• International Day Of Education: The Girl Child - January 24, 2019
• Child Abuse: NLC seeks prosecution of parents, guardians of street children - January 22, 2019
• The Cry for Hope! - June 27, 2018

Flickers of Hope

A non- profit, NGO registered with the corporate Affairs Commission RC 43149 on February 2011. The Organization was established in 2010 primarily with the burden to give hope to the hopeless removing young hawkers from the street and putting them back in schools.