In the world we live in, we think that we know what is going on everywhere around us, but we do not. Did you know that right now, millions of children are fighting a war in Africa for the government? Children! These kids do not have an opprotunity to live their lives like normal children do. They do not get to laugh and play or even go to school. In the society we live in, an education is something that we get and some people don't respect it. Imagine a child in Africa who does not have the same rights as you do. These kids spend all of their lives fending for themselves. I think it is quite disgusting.
There was a rally at my school a couple of weeks ago. It was for an organization called the Invisible Children. Their goal is to stop the war in Uganda and to give these children who can not fend for themselves live. They mainly help kids who are known as " children soldiers". These children fight for a man named Joseph Kony. He literally kidnaps children from their beds and make them soldiers as young as 7 years old.
After hearing about this organization, my school decided to make a club called Operation Sunrise to help these kids get the education they so rightfully deserve. This is not to intimidate others who are not part of an organization like Operation Sunrise or Invisible Children. This is to simply to get you inspired to do something to help others. If all you can do is clean a park or help out a food bank, that is fantastic. Whether it is a small thing you do or a big thing, what matters is that you are helping someone other than yourself to make this world a better place. To me, a hero is not someone who has amazing abilities but it is someone who changes the world ,one act at a time.
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