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Children Die

 
Children die from starvation
When we waste more food than we consume

Children die from drinking dirty water
When we use water to wash our cars

Children die from curable diseases
When we enlist for vanity led cosmetic surgery

Children die from the lack of medical facilities
When we fund clinics to whiten our teeth

Children die at the hands of extremists
When we funded and armed those extremists

Children die because of our morality
When we knowingly do nothing

Children die because of our foreign policies
When we don’t make demands of our politicians

Children die because we pay charity shop managers a salary
When only a small amount of money raised is used to help

Children die because we just don’t care enough
When there is enough of everything for everyone

Children die
Written by David_Macleod (14397816)
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