Everyone is talking about it. Very strange, though because they are whispering it all over as if the wind will hear and take it away. Its actually not a secret anymore; after all, everybody around has heard the news, shared their views and stretched the pews. I know about it. BUT why aren't they saying anything? Wait a minute...this is serious! I have never seen such an open display of ignorance in any society. The health of the people is at great risk, matter of fact, the future of a whole generation is at the verge of extinction. Sadly, they don't even realize that they have been handed the shorter end of the stick. How does a people come this far? Abject poverty and filth surrounds them, they lack access to clean, drinkable water, and live in wooded slums of less that 6*6ft with their families. More that 60% of their teenage girls are single mothers, most of who make less than $2 a day. Education, they believe is a waste of time; so, both adults and children work tirelessly on the beach as fishermen and laborers respectively. The last time I went there, the young men told me they didn't believe going to school would change their life outcome. As though they had been sentenced to the "lowly life". Hmmm I shook my head in disbelieve, such great and youthful minds left to go waste because some greedy,irresponsible and over ambitious people in high offices have capitalized on their illiteracy and taken them for granted. A few months ago, I came into contact with a bizarre sex video between a 10 year old girl and a 5 year old boy. My stomach turned in disgust as I watched two precious kids being destroyed by social norms they are oblivious of as they engaged in an act that seemed common to them. Unbelievably appalling, right? This is the state of a community right in the capital city of Accra-Ghana, known as CHORKOR.
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