{"id":7431,"date":"2012-02-28T15:21:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=7431"},"modified":"2012-02-28T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:21:35","slug":"community-voices-its-not-their-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=7431","title":{"rendered":"Community Voices: It’s not their fault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note:<\/strong> Today, we continue a semi-regular feature, Community Voices, featuring writing by members of the Unionville community on a wide range of topics. Many of the writers \u2014 as our first three writers featured \u2014 will be students and we think they have interesting insights. Our first installment ran last\u00a0 Monday<\/a>, the second installment ran last Wednesday<\/a>. We thank these gifted young writers for their contributions and hope to publish more in the future. Let us know what you think.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Megan Bell<\/strong>, Student, Patton Middle School<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The small child sits in a wheel chair by the window; she stares outside at the hospital\u2019s garden. Her eyes are beautiful and blue, but sadness is present in her expression. Her head is lightly placed against the glass, in a depressed position.\u00a0 Her hospital gown is pale blue and thin. She spends most her days in the garden, but today she feels weaker than ever. Her parents try to visit her as much as possible, but they have to take on more jobs to pay for the treatments she needs and some days they can\u2019t even visit at all. Cancer has taken over her body and doctors don\u2019t know if she\u2019ll make it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not her fault. She needs help.<\/p>\n

Another boy in Africa lies on the ground covered by just a tattered sheet.\u00a0 He is starving. His home is a tent and his sisters have to travel hours to get water and it is not even clean. His father is sick and is too ill to help take care of his family, so the boy must take on the task. The child\u2019s mother passed away years ago. He now must care for his father and little brothers as he watches his community suffer.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not his fault. He needs help.<\/p>\n

A young boy wanders the streets alone searching for a free meal. He doesn\u2019t have a home or a family. He sleeps on park benches or in allies. His clothes are worn and he is filthy. All his belongings fit in a bag he carries on his shoulder.\u00a0 He has nowhere to go. \u00a0The shelters are full and he is miserable. On a good day he eats and it doesn\u2019t rain.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not his fault. He needs help.<\/p>\n

All of these children need food, treatment and shelter, and why shouldn\u2019t they get it? What have they done to deserve this low level of life?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not their fault.<\/p>\n

People have they power to fix this problem. Those who have need to give. If everyone did something, even if it\u2019s a little thing, we could help children like these get a second chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: Today, we continue a semi-regular feature, Community Voices, featuring writing by members of the Unionville community on a wide range of topics. Many of the writers \u2014 as our first three writers featured \u2014 will be students and we think they have interesting insights. Our first installment ran last\u00a0 Monday, the second installment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[949,7428,633],"class_list":["post-7431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-community-voices","tag-patton-middle-school","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}