Save the Children - It's the beginning

Someone ever asked me this: "Does a child born good or they're born evil?"

And what I answered that time was: "No matter the answer is, every child deserves a good life, isn't it?"

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These days, I'm thinking much about social projects. What can I do in terms of social activities or something since I plan to take a break for the end-year? How am I gonna do it on the COVID situation? What concern should I bring to those social activities?

Then, I found an interesting article about one of KPOP idol (yes, I am into KPOP), who did an interview with Vogue Korea. Written on, this idol has a family in Africa Ghana through a long-term sponsorship program. Yes, he sponsored a child, and guess what he said about this: 

"I am proud that one more person can be living a better life because of me. To make the best out of Anas's life it feels like the empty parts in me are also being filled up." - translated by fans from the original interview cut of Vogue Korea 2020.

Anas is the child that Lee Know from Stray Kids has been sponsored ever since he was in middle school. (The time I read this, I became like: what? middle school?). The child now has entered school, so calculating the time, Lee Know might start when the kid was a baby? The story of Lee Know who participated in a child sponsorship program has been revealed several times before, but it was only told as Lee Know did this because he's born as the only child, and he wants to have a little brother but can't then he join a sponsorship program. Thanks to Vogue Korea, I get the longer version of these and it makes me think: how about do some research on child social programs. 

(in case you wanna read the interview cut, I put this image with the three-cats story as a bonus :D)

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Born as an only child also make me wonder how does it feel to have a sibling. I still remember the first time I visited a Panti Asuhan when I was younger, even it was only because after school activity, it definitely memorable. I remember playing with the children, listening to their dreams, or even sharing a little hug could make my day perfect. Years after, I realized that there's so much way to support children's lives other than visiting Panti Asuhan.

Starting from getting ads about child hunger in social media, the voice offer kept ringing inside my head, it was "One of seven (if I'm not mistaken) does not have enough food", followed by my friend who works for the UN telling me her journey building Rumah Singgah, and how she got into many social projects for child and education. It totally brings me to what I'm doing right now: read as many as possible child programs to find out where I can start to jump in. 

From now on, I'll keep writing about everything I found on the internet and consider those as a journal.  Maybe from this journal, I can find someone who will enlighten me about everything, correct me if I got the wrong information, maybe I can friend with someone who has the same concern, and maybe that person is you?

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See you at the part II ;)