'Haiti' A World Of Poverty

Mom, I want to go to the movies!
Dad, I want to eat McDonalds!
Mom, buy me a new video game!
These are some of the things you would hear from todays kids. Are we spoiled? Yes! Do we have everything we can imagine? Yes! Do we ever stop to think about others who have less? No!

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Gameboys, Game Cube, X-Box, Lego, K'Nex, computers, toys... Christmas has come and gone and I, like every other boy or girl I know, asked for and received many toys and expensive gifts. Life is not like this everywhere else in the world. Mrs. Woltz and fellow classmates, my grandpa recently did something that made me think about this. He joined a special group of people and visited a country not too far from North America where the children not only don'thave toys, but they don't have food, clean water, toilets, or houses. But what they do have is hunger, sickness, and poverty.

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Poetry Written by those who have been to Haiti (all Poetry © LM Afonso)