Do YOU know about the INVISIBLE CHILDREN in Uganda???
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This is a very serious problem.  I just heard about it a few weeks ago.  It is in no way a scam, and these children really need all the help they can get.
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Have a look on http://au.blogs.yahoo.com/lostninja/
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Right behind you lol. No really, I'm sure they are all around the nation and there is probably no way you can find them. The gov't needs to step in and intervene. Stay away from unusual people and be safe
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sure you can find it on the web. they are suing for peace now after museveni (Ugandan pres) asked the international criminal court to serve warrants on them for war crimes. there'll probably be peace soon, they have already started handin in weapons.
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salam brother\n\ni would say those are children who have not  yet realized that there are people in the world who believe, look, and think differently than them. some of people take a little longer than others to mature :)\n\ni wouldnt bother reporting it to the police (you should report it to Yahoo thought) b/ those are scared children. they choose they anonymity of the internet for a reason.\n\nasalamwalaikum
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I can't give you a completely up to date answer; however, I was there three years ago, traveling with people who had been there a few years before that.  According to my friends, there were FAR fewer homeless children than they had seen during their last visit.  It sounded like the government had been doing a good job getting the children into orphanages and such.  \nWe also visited an orphanage while we were there.  It was full of kids, and they looked happy and healthy, for the most part. \nThere were still kids on the street, but they were far fewer than there are in, say, India.  And I don't think some of them could have been too poorly off - I once offered a homeless child some bread (fresh, wrapped)...which he refused - he wanted money!  \n\nAs for how they come to be homeless...well, how do kids end up on the streets anywhere?  A bad family situation, an accident...I'm sure they all have a sad story. \nI can't tell you how they survive the winter, either...they must be able to find somewhere warm to go.  And some of them are probably very poor, but not homeless.  \nBut I do think that the situation is probably still improving there...at least, I hope it is!
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OK, I'll give this a stab. Once upon a time, I taught upper elementary school in a inner city that is now far, far away. A report on NPR's marketplace inspired me to put together a unit on toys. \n\nI began by reading the short story "The Lesson" by Tony Cade Bambara aloud to the students. In the story, a "nappy-headed woman" with too much education and no makeup takes a group of kids from Harlem to the toy store FAO Schwartz in Manhattan. By doing this, she shows them that there's a world outside their Harlem neighborhood, and in this world, they don't have much power or money. The narrator--one of the Harlem kids--is angry, really angry at the woman who taught her this lesson.\n\n"You know," said one of my former students about a year later, "We hated you just like those kids in the story hated that woman."\n\n"I know," I said. By then I had learned that if you tell kids they are any kind of disadvantaged, even if you do so by telling them you grew up disadvantaged, too, they will hate you for it. \n\nBut I wasn't done with the unit. I had discussion questions for them to write about, and one of them was "Who are the people who buy the toys at FAO Schwartz?" The kids' answers were mostly some variation of "rich people".\n\nNext up, I had them go home and look at the "Made in" tags on three of their own toys, or those of a sibling, neighbor, or cousin if they were "too old" for toys. Actually, this was also a way out for kids who couldn't afford to own three toys.\n\nThe next day we compiled the results of our survey. I did that because I had two different figures for the percentage of toys made in China, and I wanted them to participate in gathering our own data: primary research. Some of the kids had obviously not done their research, but I included their made up answers (like "Made in Africa") anyway. Our results showed a percentage in between the two percentages I had from my research. In all three cases, we had figures that showed more than half the toys sampled were made in China.\n\nNext, I prepared them for an article I'd adapted from the newspaper by bringing in maps and coffee table books about China. I showed them, for example, terraces on the sides of mountains and a photograph of people in western Sichuan province with 100 pound tubs of manure on their backs, preparing to hike five miles into the mountains to lay manure on their fields.\n\nAt this point, I always asked the small group I was showing this particular photograph a question. Given a choice, would they rather come to school, read some stories, do some science, work some math problems, have recess, lunch, and maybe computer class, or would they rather hike five miles into the mountains with a hundred-pound tub of manure on their backs?\n\nWell, most of them would rather come to school. But there was always one or two who would say, "Give me the tub of manure."  These are your "kinesthetic learners", the kids who learn best by moving. In one case the kid was also a student with a high naturalistic intelligence (who happened to be born into a family with no interest in nature) and a truancy problem. I often think of that kid, and how happy he would be if he lived where I live now. \n\nAs a general rule, kinesthetic learners are more likely to be put in special ed, to drop out of school, and to end up in jail. They are the group of students that we as educators fail the most. And by fail, I mean we don't do right by them.\n\nAnyway, in the next part of the lesson, my students were to read an article I'd adapted from The Washington Post. The article told the story of a teenager who had travelled from western Sichuan province to the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen, outside Hong Kong. \n\nIt explained how she'd gotten a job in a toy factory as a sort of human conveyor belt, moving partially manuf
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Here are a few ideas:\n\n-compare the media coverage of the monitor vs. the new vision. How does being a government newspaper affect the content of the new vision?\n\n- Evaluate the use of media in addressing HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Which forms of media have been used, which have been most successful and why (eg. radio vs. TV vs. newspaper, vs. billboards)\n\n- Evaluate the extent to which journalists have freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Uganda.\n\n- Take a certain issue (eg. HIV/AIDS or UPE or PEAP) and investigate how media coverage of that issue has changed over time.\n\nThose are just a few ideas. There are literally hundreds of topics you could pursue, just use your creativity, imagination, and knowledge. Good luck!
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Got a good one for you here.  Not anyone I know personally but in the state of Michigan...A little boy named Ricky Holland  was adopted by his foster "parents"  Child protective services have been called on them NUMEROUS times.  Well the foster parents ended up BRUTALLY killing him.  I could go into details about that but I wish not to because it was bad.  If you contact me through my profile I will go into more detail about that.  Protective Services had been called by his school because his parents sent lunches with him daily of food he didn't like and wouldn't eat.  He had bruises all the time and was extremely malnourished.  He was caught in neighbors houses while they were gone trying to steel food because he was so hungry. The parents locked all the cupboards and refrigerator.  Kept him in the basement and wouldn't let him play outside.  They also were call by neighbors because of that and because of all his mysterious bruises.  Well last year the put out a national Amber Alert because the parents said he had run away... Well It came out that they (his foster parents) killed him and hid his remains in a very remote area.  Like I said I will tell you the details of his death that was all over the news if you contact me.. Its nothing I want to post.. too gruesome.
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no they don't the picture with them and there kids is a picture that was made bye a fan.... Its a fake. But they are getting closer every day. ^^''\n\nand kagome i can't contact u because u dont have any contact information when i click on your name.(:
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Uganda, Lira or Apac District.
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40,000 orphans are running from abduction - most having already seen their parents killed, others not knowing if they have any other family alive.\n\n"Their deaths are not quick--a child killed by a single rebel bullet is a rarity. If one child attempts to escape, the rebels force the other abducted children to kill the would-be escapee, usually with clubs or machetes. Any child who refuses to participate in the killing may also be beaten or killed."\n\n"It is hard to know how many children have been abducted by the rebels. Most estimates suggest that three to five thousand children have escaped from captivity during the past two years. UNICEF estimates that an equal number of children remain in captivity, and an unknown number are dead."\n\n"Escape is rarely the end of an abducted child's ordeal, for those children who escape often find that they have nowhere to go. Their villages may have been destroyed by the rebels; their parents may have been killed or may have fled the countryside for the comparative safety of the towns."\n\nThe first link below contains many personal stories from the children.
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I'm not sure....probably whichever countries lack the money to fund the orphanages and have weak or underfunded social supports (Moldova, Bangladesh, North Korea)...In a documentary it came to my attention that some orphans in North Korea are left to die. Watch the film/documentary called "Children Underground" about the orphans in Romania...AMAAAAAAAAAZING film, and you'll see the kind of things some orphans have to endure.
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the children are going to sadly become homeless! this is horrible
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yes! look at the starving children in africa. they're experiencing a forced anorexia
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Here is a good site for statistics. It says that the population growth has been diminished to nearly ZERO, because of AIDS related deaths. \nhttp://www.prcdc.org/summaries/aidsinafrica/aidsinafrica.html
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This question worries me on various levels. Can it be that there are educational systems in the world that blithely skip over the great horrors humanity has visited on itself? Will the murders of the Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Kulaks, Tutsis ... God forgive me for not mentioning them all ... just become "legends" for future generations?