World Childhood Day: in Lebanon the child no longer has the right to live
By searching a few days ago in the list of television channels in order to group all those intended for children, I spot other than the famous Tiji, Disney, Nickelodeon, Baby TV, Arabic -speaking channels such as MBC3, Space Toon, Majed Kids, etc.Out of curiosity, I dwell on them a little to discover them, and I realize that these channels, where the Arab accent is rather that of the Gulf, offer a well -adapted and strongly varied fun and educational content.In addition to the cartoons doubled with well-known characters such as yes-yes, pebble, macha and the bear, coconut melon, tchoupi etc., there are some who are a purely Arabic production, richly illustrated and wonderfully well designed.
Programs intended for children absent from Lebanese channels
I then realize not without disappointment, that there is no Lebanese channel for children.Worse still, that these Lebanese channels have no more programs devoted to children, and only the LBC is content to broadcast the covers of old programs at times when children are not at home to view them.Formerly, it was notably between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. that the bits of cabbage had an appointment with their favorite, local and international animated series.Lebanon was the regional laboratory for the production of programs devoted to children and dubbing the famous manga and American animations to Arabic.Today, nothing, and the fork dedicated to children is nonexistent, and happens to be replaced by vulgar Turkish soap opera lined in Syrian language.
Sadly, I realize that Lebanon is becoming more and more a country where the child no longer has the right to live.It is of course not only a question of a place in a television time grid, but if we open our eyes, children are not taken into account either in the whole or in the details of daily life.
A country where the child no longer has the right to live properly
Public or even private spaces where children can be entertained are almost nonexistent, and if they are, we find them in two states in general: either abandoned, dilapidated and unsanitary, for most public places, or overpricedfor a large population of the population when the latter prove to be private spaces.There is no option for parents only the restaurants and a few ciné branches to derive their brats.
With the bursting of the financial crisis and hellish inflation since the end of 2019, children have not even had the right to eat properly and this since the first hours they open their eyes to this world. Les laits maternisés 1er et 2ème âge sont quasi introuvables, à la merci des griffes avides des commerçants qui les subtilisent tant qu’ils bénéficient d’une subvention officielle, afin de les revendre un jour à un prix plus que décuplé, ce qui empêcherait une bonne partie de la population d’en acheter.Let us continue with the layers, the price of the latter has been multiplied by ten or even fifteen, and there is a ministerial light which made a statement inviting families to opt for washable layers like the Chinese andOur ancestors, in a country where to light its washing machine becomes a luxury with daily current failures are more than 21 hours.
Christmas 2021 under the sign of sadness
Let us add to the problems of milk and diapers the basic food which becomes more than a luxury for more than 70% of families, that of the shortage of drugs and vaccines, the sweets which have become a dream for many children,Books or comics that are no longer a possible option, clothing at the prohibitive cost, the price of toys that has climbed in an incredible way exceeding for a simple doll the ridiculous minimum wage of 675,000 l.L.whose purchasing power is limited only to a local package of 100 layers and a box of powdered milk of 1.4 kg.
You will have understood, the day before December 24 this year will not be festive at all for many Lebanese homes, when it was less than two years ago, we congratulated ourselves to having one of the most beautiful fir trees in the worldin one of our localities.
A disturbing UN report
An alarming, even upsetting report of the UN last July, puts figures for the misery of the Lebanese homes, making this observation even more frightening, without forgetting the health and psychological sequelae of the pandemic of COVVI-19 in a Bled where thegovernments are of a warning uselessness and ineffectiveness:
(Source: Unicef)
A childhood victim of an interminable war
It is clear that what has just been cited mainly addresses the material side concerning the life of children in Lebanon, but you should know that this is certainly not that the major problem lies.
The major children's problem in Lebanon is the war that has never been completed.I am a child who was born and grew up during the dirty years of uterine wars, with all the noise that a war can make in the life of a child.Today, this child has grown up, and has become the mother of a small toddler that she is raising as well as she can, but without being able to shelter him from the endless problems in which the Macère thecountry.
The power in power who waged war 46 years ago are always the rain and the good weather: none has been properly judged, the war crimes are mostly unpunished, and these same criminals who have one day nourishedSmart francs or terrorists at the level of demarcation lines are elected officials in parliament, often named ministers or even more, who have not stopped using the boxes of the State until we deprive ourselves of our ownsavings in banks, devalue the Lebanese pound and cause all possible and not possible shortages in the country of cedar.
The worst in all of this ...
And the worst in all of this is that there are still masses who praise these civil war criminals and a caricature of peace that has fooled for more than thirty years, who cannot realizethat the 80s are far from us, and who drown in their endless imaginary disputes, forgetting that the cause of our misfortunes is their follow -up which nourishes the financial heritage of their executioners and starves their own offspring.
In the midst of these subject minds anchored in the vase of narrow conflicts and annihilating the concept of citizenship to the expense of partisan or community interests, the future is more than gray, and de facto, childhood is trampled and sacrificed on the altars ofCupidity and venality.All that is unhealthy for the healthy growth of a child.
For World Child Day, on November 20, 2021, I write these lines with a pinch in the heart, eyes drowned in tears, on the sad reality that the Lebanese child is forced to live because of adultsWho forgot, as the song says, to take the child by the hand, to take him to tomorrow ...
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