Thursday, January 06, 2005
Life is just not fair!!
Indonesia and UN Fear Child Trafficking
It's difficult enough to process the concept of a giant wave taking the lives of over 150,000 people. I sat in my church last night at our orchestra rehearsal, contemplating what the sanctuary looks like when full. It seats just over 1000 people. So ... that would be 150 full church services to SEE that many people. That's a LOT!
But what they've been talking about for the past day or two is the idea of child trafficking. Children in Indonesia and other places affected by the tsunami who have lost their parents, either by death or by failure to be reunited are feared to be in danger of being stolen by child trafficking gangs who are selling them into forced labor or sexual slavery. Isn't it bad enough for a child to lose his or her parents? But to be sold into slavery for whatever horrible purpose is unthinkable. Apparantly it happens in that part of the world all the time, as the "child trafficking gangs" are well-established. Indonesia has even put great restrictions on travel by children under the age of 16.
This grieves me more than I could even describe to you. I know that we are never promised that life is fair. But it is so difficult to process the fact that not all children get the same start at least. I was put up for adoption before I was even born ... and was adopted by a wonderful family who love each other and who have always loved me and provided for me everything tangible and intangible that I could ever imagine. Why is it that other children who don't have parents can't have at least the same chance?
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