Remembering...

It is just has though it happened yesterday. Let me re-post the story that was posted by me else where that tells of one epoch point in my life. 


Here we go...


This all happened about three weeks or so ago i.e about the second week or third week of August, 2007. I had gone to join a christian fellowship at their camp ground. The venue was a school. 

Later that night a vigil of sorts was going on when i saw this little boy, i'm sure not more than 14, at the entrance to where we were having the programme. 

Of course i invited him in. that is just the begining of the story. After the programme that night we offered him some food. He refused and only asked that he be allowed to sleep in the auditorium where the programme took place. That we didn't see how we were going to allow to happen. We didn't know him from anywhere and what if he was planted by some crooks so hat whn we were asleep they'll come in and clear the room of all the instruments that were being used? 

Much later we got to know the truth. He had walked a distance of more than 10km! Much more. It was then i understood why all he wanted wa to sleep. i could feel that. I had a similar experience of being lost at about the age of ten, though i'm sure i didn't do 1okm, yet it is an experience that has stayed with me. 

He was even threathend with being handed over to the police. His reply was "i don't mind if i can get to sleep there" (translated from my native language, yoruba). 

He slept there that night and was gone before dawn. His story, he was going back home (from our observaion he was completely lost) because the guardian he was staying with was abusive. All these didn't come out until after much threats. 

Today i still feel pained. My heart still weeps and my eyes too, that there was nothing i could have done to make sure that the boy does not become a street boy. I still remeber his name, Tijani. 

I pray and hope everday that he finds his way home. 

Let's make our world a little better. Show some love.
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That was then. This is now and I still feel just as strongly about those issues and even more.


Just keep on with me.  Life is only as beautiful as we make it to be for others.




Ciao!