Have you ever known that over 44,000 children are missing every year? 53 percent of children in India drop out at elementary level? 25 per cent of approximately 2.3 million sex workers in India are minors? a sex worker transmits HIV to at least 600 people in a 10 year-span of selling sex?
It's incredible that some of the richest and the poorest men belong to the same country...India. As a commoner, there could be innumerable times one empathizes with the homeless and friendless children on the streets. It takes just a few leisure minutes and a cup of tea to grouch about government's prospects and policies but it takes a while to delve own minds for introspection. All one needs is power, to drive beggars away from the metro cities to make it look 'clean and green' but it takes compassion and responsibility for one to think about anyone other than himself.
Mother Theresa said "It is not enough for us to say, 'I love God, but I do not love my neighbor,'" she said, God had "[made] himself the hungry one - the naked one - the homeless one." she said, is what "you and I must find" and alleviate. We can't possibly support hundreds so we start with one. Moment of truth: Whole hearted compassion and thus responsibility makes our country true India to live in.
Source: True India
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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