It is definitely true that not all children had as good childhood as we’ve had. Kids should have parents that love them, kids should be playing around not worrying about more than when they going to have their next ice-cream. Kids should go to bed with Mickey Mouse sheets and with fake stars shining in the ceiling, kids should be happy and cared for!
Kids shouldn’t live in underground pipes or in abandoned buildings. Kids shouldn’t have to beg for food or money, wearing dirty clothes and shoes were you can see the toes sticking out. Kids shouldn’t be high from sniffing glue or shooting up H in their skinny arms. And kids shouldn’t get kids of their own, after offering their bodies to survive another night or day on the streets.Whether they should or not, this is the cruel reality in cities like St. Petersburg. You don’t see them much, not here in the center. But if you travel a few stops with the metro they will be everywhere. Many of them doesn’t know anything else than living on the street, and run back to the streets once, or if, they are taken to a shelter. Yesterday a small girl, maybe 14, asked me for some money. She looked like hell, high and skinny with dirt in her entire face. She was also very pregnant. Never felt that much for anybody in my whole life. Looking at her I just wanted to cry. Where the hell is she gonna give birth to her kid, what is she gonna do with it. Right now it might be warm here, but in the winter-it’s freezing!!
Last weekend some of them stole my phone on the metro. They squeezed around me, many of them, with their small hands everywhere. And they are good, professionals. I know they not gonna use the phone or money for food, but I hope it could help them be happy, if even for 5 minutes. Eish I feel so spoiled, we have everything we wish for, they haven’t got nothing! And they are kids! If there is anything we could do to help them we should, it’s awful.
Sorry to bring this up on you, but I think we shoul all know about it. It’s a 2 hours flight from home!!
Kramar Anna
Kids shouldn’t live in underground pipes or in abandoned buildings. Kids shouldn’t have to beg for food or money, wearing dirty clothes and shoes were you can see the toes sticking out. Kids shouldn’t be high from sniffing glue or shooting up H in their skinny arms. And kids shouldn’t get kids of their own, after offering their bodies to survive another night or day on the streets.Whether they should or not, this is the cruel reality in cities like St. Petersburg. You don’t see them much, not here in the center. But if you travel a few stops with the metro they will be everywhere. Many of them doesn’t know anything else than living on the street, and run back to the streets once, or if, they are taken to a shelter. Yesterday a small girl, maybe 14, asked me for some money. She looked like hell, high and skinny with dirt in her entire face. She was also very pregnant. Never felt that much for anybody in my whole life. Looking at her I just wanted to cry. Where the hell is she gonna give birth to her kid, what is she gonna do with it. Right now it might be warm here, but in the winter-it’s freezing!!
Last weekend some of them stole my phone on the metro. They squeezed around me, many of them, with their small hands everywhere. And they are good, professionals. I know they not gonna use the phone or money for food, but I hope it could help them be happy, if even for 5 minutes. Eish I feel so spoiled, we have everything we wish for, they haven’t got nothing! And they are kids! If there is anything we could do to help them we should, it’s awful.
Sorry to bring this up on you, but I think we shoul all know about it. It’s a 2 hours flight from home!!
Kramar Anna
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