Poor children don’t do lobbying. Poor children don’t have connections, “friends”, they don’t have the influence or the power to force bills through late at night.
Poor children do not take part in demonstration or opinion polls; poor children’s opinion doesn’t count.
Poor children are remembered once or twice a year, on a World day of some kind when momentous statements are made but nothing more.
Poor children are everywhere around us even though we pretend we don’t see them. Poor children are hungry and scared, they wear ragged clothes and torn shoes but their dreams and hopes keep them fed.
Lately we meet increasingly more of them every day at our Clinics.
Their heads are always bent low. And that’s what makes us angry. Each time our anger grows.
For all those things that we haven’t managed to do.
We thought that we should all join our feelings of anger together.
We thought that on the 14th of December, after the Christmas tree of milk tins is set and the celebration is over, we should stay in the area overnight.
As many of us as can bear it. In the cold. All night long!!!
In a silent, quite, angry, symbolic protest for all those “invisible children” in Greece who live around us helpless and alone.
Hopefully some will be moved and our protest will yield results.
You could help us by passing on the message of that night.
No child will be left alone, helpless and unprotected in Greece!!
