I looked at them with strange eyes; their number is increasing day by day. When I first saw them they were four in number. All have hardly dressed and face of malnutrition. Now yesterday I saw another two joined with them. A good sign from their perspective, it gives them extra advantage in trouble.
“You know in street everything is uncertain, under open sky god own is unwilling to take our responsibility” one of them told me.
I’m talking about street children. All those I have found in my way to and back every day to my University hall. Akas, Selim, Hasan and Bellal are the four I know. They all live near my University campus. Simply trying to earning their living by selling fence chocolates, flowers. Sometimes they beg money and they have a very common slogan, “Duida( two) Taha( taka) den Kishu Khamu”. In evening when I go to TSC I feel an unknown addiction to talk to any one of them. When I asked them about their parents, “They also live in street near Kakrail”, – unwilling said Akas.
In a picture of poverty, everything reveals, from the humanity to personal responsibility, education to development, illiteracy to malnutrition. It has become a representative of the speed of one nation’s civilization and a multi-sectors parameter. As a source of the future, these children determine the competence of one country. Their ultimate existence will determine our sustainable development.
The parents who have no job or have below-standard-income and are living in a poor condition, they likely raise their children insufficiently, without enough food and adequate education. The children will grow as part of uncompetitive young adult population, hard to find job, and become young parents who will continue the remarks of their parents; raising their inborn children in a poor condition. This is an unscrupulous circle. People are living into this circle continuously getting the bitter experience of life. As the situation is going it seems their children will also remain under this circle-a circle of devil, where reality is harsher than imagination. The following result is a broken generation which named as an
underdeveloped nation, unproductive and unprogressive too.
Every day we are talking about our population, population problem and so on. But why we do not talk about human resource. Ultimately population is turned into resource. Problem is we are getting failed to understand this reality. The most important issue to consider is realizing the importance of today’s child. It means recognizing the tomorrow’s leaders.
This condition of unscrupulous poverty should be eradicated as quickly as possible. Otherwise as a nation whole we will be failed to meet the challenges of future. But the reality is difficult. To ensure education for these underprivileged children is a tough task to materialize. The truth is that, only government may fail to make it happened. So government should take contingent approach.
This approach can be in many types. But to me engaging our highly capable youth in this development process can make this process smoother. Our young generation is highly interested in development activities. It is said that more than 80% of youth are willing to participate in development programs and community development activities. Government can take this enthusiasm of youth to educate our underprivileged children. Through launching some youth lead community project can reduce this acute and devastating problem.
But our young generation is also in a circle of devil. The world of young generation is also full of frustration. Youngsters living in this country have greater aspiration than their access to modern amenities.
“Be careful; don’t try to see the reflection of our young in continuous student violence or in hip-hops of western night clubs rather they live in elsewhere, away from luxury and despicable madness. These youth have extra-ordinary dreams and capabilities to bring about positive changes.”
Think about Roni, an undergraduate student of Dhaka University, who takes the responsibility to teach slum children living near her home. MUNNI is an only example of our largely capable youngster. There are number of RonIS’ doing their best to make this country prosperous and a better place to live. But unfortunately they get our little attention and seldom get recognition for their accomplishment to society.
It is true that our youth have a number of necessities to utilize their capabilities. But in simple what they want are all about a place to express their thoughts, a source for getting inspiration in their hurdle, a station for refueling their tank of motivation, a compass for finding right direction, moreover some example to follow
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