General Chat

Exactly. Ido have things to say about the situation but they are not for here.

Exactly. Ido have things to say about the situation but they are not for here.

Apart from the pandemic, Sharron, it is sad to see that part of the world sinking back into old practices that subjugate women and abduct children into its ranks. In fact, it never really stopped doing that, rather it was likely curtailed a little for several years.

This is a world populace reacting to a pandemic.

The thing is, Sharron, that you never know whether the Taliban has allowed filming to take place with the express intent of adding to its coffers because they aren’t averse to using people and situations in perverse ways.

I haven’t seen any filming since seeing that about families selling their children to keep their heads above water for a short while but we may never know whether there was a blip in the Taliban’s shield that allowed the family to be filmed or whether the western reporters realised that they were possibly being used.

Sadness seems too be growing in the world at the moment.

i suppose I might be thinking that the main purpose of the charity I am imagining is to prevent the sale of children.

Whether the Taliban would allow it to happen is a detail I really could not comment upon.

If such a charity could be set up would the Taliban allow it? The aid they need isn't getting there anymore because other countries don't know ( or trust) that the Taliban would spend the aid on the people needing it. How I understand it anyway.

I would a prefer a charity set up that would give food parcels etc to the needy rather than money in 2021 no human should be starving to death. I realise that money is needed as well but food first and foremost to keep them alive while powers that be sort it out if they can.

There is that with any charitable concern.

I remember that scandal with the Oxfam personnel using sex workers somewhere that had had some kind of natural disaster. The tabloids did the usual knee jerk but another aspect of that was that the sex workers were doing what they do by way of work. They were working, they were getting the economy underway again.

It is a very noble idea but the worry is the type of people who would be drawn to doing this.

There are already huge problems with some charities using some very questionable people.

They were feeding and caring for the children until Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban.

My idea is that the unfortunate families who must contemplate selling a child should sell it to this charity I am proposing and it stay with the family.

Sharron, my opinion is that, these people need to be educated about contraception.Some families have 5 or more children which if you are poor is a worry on how to feed them. I dont suggest they restrict by law like the chinese to 2 children but surely, breeding & breeding is not helping their situations.

I didnt see the programme, but its awful they have to sell their children, unthinkable!

If there was a charity that rescued the children and took care of them, that has to be far better.

I don't mind a bit of Steinbeck!

I know who I prefer to read ;-)

Could it be that it is a somewhat thought provoking idea that emanated from a mind other than his fine one and he is jealous?

Anyway, anybody have any thoughts on the idea?

Well for what it is worth Sharron my thoughts are he should keep his nose out if he doesn't know what he is talking about so makes stuff up.

soon got hi jacked..

Doesn't take long for the thread to be about Rollo and not my idea does it?

Maybe Rollo could explain who the man in the house was. The one in the TV news sitting with children in the house with the poor mother who had to sell the baby.

RTR what does your statement have to do with what Sharron has said?

I also saw a news item (maybe the same one) where a family had sold their daughter, a baby, to a man who said the child would marry his son when of age. He had paid half the money and the rest would be paid on collection.
It was also said that no one really knew what would happen to the children once sold.

These people are not refugees they are in their own country but they have no work and because aid has stopped because of the Taliban taking over there is no money to help them. That is what I understood from the news item I saw.