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2008/11/19

Stepping Stones Nigeria

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@ 05:18 PM (7 months, 16 days ago)

My dearest blogging mates, I don’t often write on my blog to appeal or ask for help as you all well know, but hear me out.

 

Whenever we think of Nigeria and charities, we always think ‘Scam Spam’ and switch our brains off.

 

I just watched a Dispatches documentary programme in the UK about children who are beaten to death or abandoned because some local nutter in the Nigerian Delta region decided for no good reason that the kid was a witch. Often the kids are killed, or the parents have to pay shed loads of cash to allow some local ‘Prophet’ (read con artist for prophet by the way) to cleanse the child.

 

The whole thing is absolute rubbish but the Nigerian Delta region is steeped in suspicious Christianity/ witchcraft practises for years now and the whole thing is exacerbated by propaganda films made by some crazy church leader who infects the brains of these poor people with arcane ideas of witches. They say kids as young as one year old can kill an adult with a spell! The sign of witchcraft in a child is crying at night and a high temperature, which covers just about every baby in the world to be honest!

Jesus would weep if he saw what these lying rats do in his so-called name.

 

Trust me you would only have watch five minutes of this British documentary and you want to get on a plane and rescue the kids yourself.

 

Gary Foxcroft is an ordinary bloke from England and he is the director of the charity, he was studying in Nigeria when he realised the problem and is dedicated to helping the children. The link below is the website, please click and help if you can?

 

http://www.steppingstonesnigeria.org/

 

It is a charity that rescues, protects and fights for the rights of these abused kids, please click on the link and see if you can help them in any way?

 

Thanks to all my blogging friends for any help on this issue.

 

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  1. And the show probably ends with "PLEASE" SEND YOUR TAX DEDUCTABLE GIFT TO ....scam central ! The guy is out to tug on your heart strings for your help ! When All along its thier country and Thier countries leaders who are at fault ! please Just Support the Overthrow of said Government and REALLY SOLVE THE PROBLEM ! NOT just Throw cash at it and hope it goes Away !

    Comment by jim— 2008/11/19 @ 09:28 PM — (Reply)

  2. YOU kno I'm RIGHT !

    Comment by jim— 2008/11/19 @ 09:30 PM — (Reply)

  3. Looks legit to me Jimbo. Perhaps you might even take a look at it and consider an apology:

    Stepping Stones Nigeria (SSN) works with partner community organisations in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria to protect, save and transform the lives of vulnerable children such as street children and orphans.Our work focuses on some of the most challenging issues that children face today such as:

    Lack of access to good quality education and resources

    Stigmatisation, abandonment and killings of so-called child 'witches'

    Child Trafficking

    SSN supports our partners to provide welfare, education, skills and hope to disadvantaged children. We believe that access to an education is every child's right and that this is the key that will unlock Nigeria's potential. SSN also believes that every child has the right to be protected from violence, trafficking, sexual exploitation, forced labour and deserves a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical and mental needs. Our work helps to restore the health, happiness and self-dignity of each child, whilst repairing the physical and pyschological trauma inflicted that has so often been suffered by the hundreds of children that we work with.

    Our Partners
    Stepping Stones Model School
    Bebor Model School
    Stepping Stones Nigeria Children’s Empowerment Foundation (SSNCEF)
    Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN)
    University of Uyo Jolly Phonics Team



    Comment by Ed— 2008/11/19 @ 09:51 PM — (Reply)

  4. OH That Nigeria .. The place where Edi Amean comes from or at least from that neighborhood ! Ya Still doesnt Excuse from Winch the problems come from ! Do ALL the Good you want ! Right up until the time the uhm Government comes in and runs you away for inciting the people !

    Comment by jim— 2008/11/19 @ 10:43 PM — (Reply)

  5. What's the latest with those Somali pirates that hijacked the huge tanker?

    Comment by Ed— 2008/11/19 @ 11:01 PM — (Reply)

  6. Its a Stalemate. everyone is waiting for the other to Flinch ! I would like for it to end in a Really Awsome Hollywood Drama Style (god I hate Human drama) ! hahahaaa

    Comment by jim— 2008/11/19 @ 11:33 PM — (Reply)

  7. You gotta admit that those pirates are something.

    Comment by Ed— 2008/11/19 @ 11:43 PM — (Reply)

  8. Ya thier Something Alright !

    Comment by jim— 2008/11/20 @ 10:56 AM — (Reply)

  9. Here You Go ED, I just watched Barbara Starr's segment obout a little girl at an Air Force base in afghistan. It seems That the Afghan Government doesnt even give a Shit about one child who would otherwize be Dead from an Respitory Ailment which would preclude her existance outside of the Hospital at the A.F. base and movement in the streets of the country. Dead ED ! DEAD because if the U.S.A.F. Left there today Nobody would take up this girls Cause ! Leaving it to PANHANDLERS of TV to reach YOU ED for a Donation of funds ! Why Is Thier Own Government NOT at fault here ?

    Comment by jim— 2008/11/20 @ 11:02 AM — (Reply)

  10. If every kid that screamed and ran a fever at night was casting spells, I would be in big trouble in my little ER....no maam thats not an otitis media..(ear infection)...thats junior casting Phantasmal Killer...an illusionist spell.....oh and change the diaper he also just cast stinking cloud.....lol....geeez you would think in the modern world people would be wise to idiots like that.....witch craft indeed.....how assinine.....riff

    Comment by riffran— 2008/11/20 @ 12:20 PM — (Reply)

  11. But Riff, These people are not involved in the modern World ! They are Denied Simple things like Hot and Cold Running Water and sewage containment and treat. Thier Own Government is thier only Suppressor ! Because thier Government prefers unarmed and un informed Peasants. Thier Policy is to Keep thier People in dire straights to give them focus on the basic mediocre human Needs So they can Cry Out where is the Humanity oh please send us your Dollars (hehehehe) and we will apply it to the problem ..Ya Right !

    Comment by jim— 2008/11/20 @ 01:08 PM — (Reply)

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