An Orphan’s definition of a challenge

Submitted by Walwana Mathias

What a challenge it is to be an orphan? Such a question can be in a mind of a person like you. But an orphan child can reveal the facts of the answers.

Just try to flash back how it was challenging to pay school dues for your children last term yet you had to pay back a loan to the bank at the same time. Well this may seem an easy challenge because you ran to the friends for help. But just imagine a small orphan child who has no one to run to; in some rural area not focusing big on towns, orphans testify the wrath of their parents’ death.

Suffering is the only clothe for them to wear they are like the early men who only used to put on backcloth. Everybody looks at them as a burden to the family where they stay and to the community at large.

Community members are not there to help and they hold no positive say to protect orphans and it becomes worse when the parents died of HIV/AIDS as they (community members) look at the children as futureless.

Allow me to drive you back to a funny situation but it will help us to realize the point; remember the times when America was planning to destroy the reign of Sadam Hussein. This looks to be the very plan and similar way that guardians focus to see off all what is concerned of the orphans mainly what their parents left.

They make successful plans of sharing all what belongs to the orphans and with no say the children keep looking on.

As it is that sugar dissolves in water, which is scientifically true, guardians also say and believe that when you get fees and give to an orphan to go to school, that will dissolve to nothing and you will be wasting funds. This leaves the little children who even have capacity of performing well at school no chance to education.

In villages mostly, elder people have a slogan that “if you don’t work, then you don’t eat”. It is true to a less extent because we all need to work to get what to survive on but it is beyond measure the way orphans work.

They are made to work a lot throughout the day yet even the eating they say ‘meets’ them in dreams.

With big crying, curses, and sadness the orphans have, they say that all what is about them is focused to God to have away out for their lives otherwise, they are living in challenges.

Be there to reach an orphan child.

3 thoughts on “An Orphan’s definition of a challenge

  1. its very true i was an ophan and i suffered more not because nobody was providing but because people wanted to use me

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