SOS Children's Villages

A sense of despair flooded my senses as I watched a group of elders go into the obi. Although most villagers dared not to say it, nothing good comes along with their presence. Their stay was not long however, but I could sense a death trail behind them. Moments later Ikemefuna was called into my father’s home. I waited for him, but the winds blew across whispers of talk from the obi as if the Gods wanted me to hear. My father’s deep voice boomed, “Ikemefuna, you are going home.” But I knew…

there are only 300 people in this village, so the lottery takes only two hours. Village children, who have just finished school for the summer, run around collecting stones. They put the stones in their pockets and make a pile in the square. The men gather talking and joking quietly. Their wives soon followed gossiping amongst one another. Parents call their children over, and families stand together awaiting the tradition…

A true story happened in my secondary school. All students of my class were born in urban areas except one student from a small village. One day, one classmate lost her cell phone. Without any confirmatory evidence, most students and our teacher immediately suspected the rural student was the thief. The teachers even threatened him to admit his guilty. The lost cell phone was never found, and no one confessed this crime. After this event, almost all students including me sort of avoided staying…

explain why Mike Davis places responsibility on the treason of state, international banks, and lending institutions for the horrific conditions in what he describes as the urban south. I will also explain why there is a vast migration from the rural villages to the megacities of the third world. As well as the ideas of thinkers like Hernando de Soto and what Davis sees as his mistaken ideas. Mike Davis offers a comprehensive study of the present urban life and shows that slums have…

communities. The types of services that are available to rural dwellers within their communities are also limited. For instance small rural hospitals cannot afford to provide surgical services due to the number of staff needed and the cost of equipment needed so rural dwellers have to travel, sometimes great distances, to obtain surgical…

Autobiographical paper. I was born on April 5th 1995, in a small village in Durango Mexico. I lived there for about 13 years, then we moved here to Chicago. I am 6 ft. ½ inches tall and I weight about 119 pounds. I have always been skinny, even my friends in Mexico used to call me “Flaquita” which means skinny in Spanish. But well, I don’t consider myself too skinny, actually I define myself as an average. As for my appearance I think I am pretty, I am often told that I am beautiful especially…

story is set in a small village in Vermont based on a settlement Jackson lived in during her…

The geopolitical community I live in is Orlando, Florida. Florida is a key State that many president candidates try their best to win during election time. Politics of Florida reflect a state that has experienced conflict between its liberal southeastern region and its traditionally conservative northern region. A geopolitical community is a community with defined geographical and jurisdictional boundaries, such as rural municipalities, towns or city communities. The boundary of a…

Beloved Community If you open your eyes and take a closer look at the small town of Alpena, you can see it’s a great place to be born and raised in. I’m grateful to live here because there isn’t much crime here and most of the people living here are kind. Alpena could use more activities for the youth though. I know as a teenager that I’d like to have more things to do with my friends. Volunteers, fundraising, and grants could help achieve in bringing more things to do for not only children,…

a lot of positive things about a small town. In a small town you can do pretty much anything you want to. People can go mudding in there own fields.They can play baseball in there yard instead of going to a park. People can have ponds in there yard so they can go fishing and swimming if they want. In a city people really cant do that stuff. People can build whatever they want on there own property. There are more positive things about…