In as much as we claim to love children, most of us are only concerned about our biological children. Who cares about what happens to those poor orphans who do not have parents to turn to, or someone to call a loved one? The number of orphans and vulnerable children (estimated to be 17.5 million in Nigeria) increases daily and we have failed to notice. While we have places to call home, surrounded by people who love and would do anything for us, these orphans don’t have anybody. Some of them hawk on the streets just to survive; sleep under the bridge, or inside buses, anywhere but home. As for those who have guardians, most of them are turned into slaves, given ill treatment, sexually abused, or even killed. Yet we say “all children are gifts from God” and we don’t even treat them equally. We look at them with disdain just because they look unkempt or because they are not as shiny as our own children. Don’t forget they were born the same way our own children were born.

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