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Gambia: Calls for Assistance
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The Daily Observer (Banjul)
EDITORIAL
7 August 2008
Posted to the web 7 August 2008
God made us with great differences in terms of our individual capacities. While some are talented in specific areas of the arts, others are gifted with wisdom, and for others material riches are the bases of their strength. Nature dictates that we can never be equal; lest there will be no peace in the world, because nobody would want to submit to authority.
This explains why we have the rich, the educated, the wise, and the power-wielding among us; the genuine execution of everybody's role is what makes a complete society. The educated and the wise are under the obligation of providing guidance for the nation; the rich are morally obliged to reach out to the underprivileged, and the power-wielding group are supposed to coordinate the operations of the entire society.
The fact that human beings can cohabit and relate to one another in a rational manner makes us the most sophisticated beings on this universe, at least for as far as findings of contemporary science can tell. Our superiority over the other creatures of this world also lies on our innate ability to empathize with one another. This is in fact the underlining force behind the sustenance of our civilization.
Ours is a generation that is so much engrossed in the love for material; so much so that nothing seems to work without money. Yet there are so many needy people out there that need help in the middle of abundance. This is why it is important that we remind each other about our obligation to the voiceless.
The Daily Observer, for instance, receives bundles of request for assistance, most of these being appeals for assistance for medical checkups. Some of the medical cases we get are so pathetic that we feel so sorry that we cannot do much about them. But all is not lost, because we have the opportunity to reach out to the people that can do something, and that is exactly what we have been doing.
Typical cases like those of the late Little Jainaba, for example, and just recently, Samba Bah, who has, unfortunately, also passed away, are experiences that call for urgent response to cases of appeal of these nature.
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On Tuesday's edition, we published another pathetic case, that of Sainey Nyangadou, who has been diagnosed for 'congenital hydrocephalus.' Quite a complicated scientific term! But basically the angel is suffering from progressive enlargement of part of the head, gradually transforming his physical appearance into some monstrous-looking feature. People like this young boy need the help of not only the rich, but anybody that can make a difference.
This is an article that shows great compassion and sympathy with those who are ill and their families,there are very many such people in Africa,they are loved by their families who try their hardest to make life bearable,the newspaper has pointed out that they recieve many requests for assistance but cannot publish all such requests.It is a fact that many handicapped people are forced to beg,because they cannot get work,physically handicapped women stand very little chance of getting married and starting a normal family.
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