The world is talking. Are you listening?

Future Now berättar om Global Vioces, en samlingsplats för bloggar om det egna landet riktad mot omvärlden. Deras slogan The world is talking. Are you listening? säger vad det handlar om; en möjlighet att få rapporter från vanligt folk och inte bara filtrerat genom journalister.

Jag valde kategorin Children och kunde inte sluta läsa. Den här rapporten från Kongo, t ex:

I can’t fathom why a rather pretty young woman is selling omelettes and doughnuts all day instead of seeking a brighter future. She wants to know why I’m not having anything and I want to know why she isn’t in school. “Because of hard times, she explains, this year Mom decided to send my sister who is in 12th grade and my younger brother and sister … to school. Next year, if Mom can afford it, my brother and I will go.”

And if Mom can’t afford school next year? Well, the brother will go and Carine will wait again. She’ll then be 23, the age to be graduating college, but instead she’ll attend 8th grade.