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The year is ending, but world events are ignoring the weather and pace of the seasons. Peace is still far away. Freedom means little of you are hungry and cold. Liberty is not something that fills your thoughts as your belly is starving. You can't hold your peace when grimness of daily live grinds alway your hope.
Yet hope emerges, spreads, and meets each challenge, somehow. Hope lives in the heart and work of people who give their lives to others. Hope is a conscious commitment to take measure in small daily successes, not counted by money, time, or promotion. Hope is a conscious commitment to share.
A new voice of hope, added to the women's voices online, is linked in our left column. The link is titled, A Taste of Africa.(http://jadedafrica.dekarabaw.com/) Please read the record of this beautiful spirit of a woman whose whole family is wth her in the East African country of Somalia. There she works to lift the lives of the ordinary people, to help them provide for themselves and to speak out for their needs among the rich whose wealth has made them deaf.
Yvette and her family are from the Philiphines, a island nation with a long relationship to the US, both militarily and politically. Famous for its former dictator, Marcos, and for the beautiful dark-haired, sultry women who filled American bars near military bases, the Philiphines, like Somalia, is more than a collection of images from late night jokes.
See this extraordinary, third world woman share Somalia and the lives of its people through her eyes. Find within this example of people helping people, a beautiful hope for this seasons, and for others to come.
God bless you all! Merry Christmas! Inshalla, Shalom and Salaam.
Thank you for this piece.If indeed Christmas is a time of giving then Somaliland and its people spend this season the whole year through. My family is the Philippines, Somalilanders I work with have become my family here in this part of the Horn of Africa. This is a nation trying to rebuild itself from the rubbles of war. They have gone through so much sacrifice to regain their nation and independence first from their British colonizers then from their union with the former Somalia. This is the reason why they are quite sensitive in being called people of Somalia, because they have fought so hard to become what they are today, Somalilanders, people of a nation called Somaliland, a place which no other country in the world dared to recognize. |