Marianthony Motherless

Rawsonville — It took the loss of an 11-year-old farm worker's leg for farmers in South Africa's Western Cape Province to belatedly heed legislation outlawing child workers, but the consequences of respecting the law has had adverse and unintended effects on those it seeks to protect.
Child labour on farms was outlawed in 1996, two years after the demise of apartheid, but it was only in 2...

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RefinedOne….Vexed!! Who is speaking for our babies?
Posted by refinedone in Change, Charity, Childcare, Children, Childwelfare, Crisis, Human rights, Kindness, Lagos,Orphans.

Hi guys…It’s been along break and a very necessary one too on so many levels, I guess the different aspects of it would reflected on my future posts.
My last post was all about Link-a-chil...

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Nigeria: Making Orphans Potential Superstars
20 May 2009
Lagos — Nobody knew that the eight-year old primary school pupil from Kaduna State, Abdullahi Bello, an orphan who finished 88 ahead of 8000 other runners at the just concluded Glo People Police Marathon slept at the old parade ground for four days just because he and his coach, a road side carpenter could not afford the lux...

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