Walking in their Shoes Blog

Human Rights (by Harvey Milner)

I’m walking down the street
Children left and right
Some are blind, some are deaf
and some are nearly dead.
When I walk down the street
Children just stare with waterfilled eyes
I can see the sorrow through their pupils
besides my lucky self in the reflection.

I walked down the street children with guns, AK-47’s in two hands
A colt – 45 in a small holster to the side of the leg ready to be drawn any minute.

 I was walking down the street
14 year old girls married and holding hands with middle – aged men.

Darkness (by Caroline L, Birkenhead High School Academy)
Can consume all hope, all light, all we receive
Except a life where wisdom empowers you
To push, to strive to be what you thought you couldn’t be for
Being who you are.

Don’t take yourself to strive towards
A body or darkness.
For to take education for granted
Means that your life will be taken
For granted.

Be what you can, and never stop running, never stop striving
And never stop crawls towards life.
For you never know you’ve wasted it for too long.
Even if you believe life is wasted,
You deserve hope, you deserve dreams.

Education (by Lucy Jackson, Birkenhead High School Academy for Girls)

Education, according to oxford dictionary ‘it is the process of recieiving or giving systematic instruction, especially in a school or university’. According to the human rights act of 1948, it states that every child is entitled to go to school and learn.

On Tuesday 4^th October 2012 Malala Yousafzai was shot on her bus ride to school, both her and her farther would campaign for the right for girls to go to school.

Whilst reading her book I noticed that never once, did her opinion change, she never lost sight of her aim. In her speech she said ‘let us remember: one book, one pen, one child,  and one teacher  can change the world.

During my visit to the human rights workshop my friend sarah said ‘it’s sad that people appreciate a child with a gun, more than a child with a pen.

We are the children of the future, one future is blank with 61 million children still not going to school. All future should be brighter than the starts, as the tarmac on the roads.