WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR NATION’S GROWTH

Sir,

I am a 16-year-old Swazi. I live under poverty and my voice is never heard, I have been shouting for too long for help and today I would love to take this opportunity to speak for all the other children like me out there.

Ladies and gentlemen, as children of Africa we are the future, without us the world is going nowhere.
As the future we need your help as our parents to get us out of poverty, we have been shouting for too long but none of you adults have paused long enough to hear our cries.

All over Swaziland you will find street kids, why do we do this Africans, why? Why can’t you offer a little more to us?
We know our government does not provide enough for salaries but the little you get, if you may share it with us that would be great.

We need your help to make it, don’t look down on us, SOS Children’s Village is also trying to help but it struggles because there are too many of us. 

This is to all the children out there, I am your voice, please adults and parents make a difference while you still can.
The other side of the coin is that blaming the government is not fair, because the fact is Swazis are lazy people.

Let me take for example, how they give land in the rural areas to Indians for general dealers, that proves that all they want is easy money coming to them.
In Swaziland enough opportunities for everyone exist to overcome poverty but the problem is we Swazis expect those opportunities to present themselves to us and we are not good at helping each other, we need to do better in this regard.

Unfortunately that’s impossible. Swazis are going to starve to death because they wait for things to come to them, or for someone to give them a chance.
Our government is hard to rely on but we also make the terrible mistake of depending so much on government. We should change the people working in government offices and replace them with the unemployed, they would forget everything and think for their own families.

I think Swaziland is capable of sustaining itself but lack the infrastructure does not allow it to do so. We have good land and a nation willing to work but without structures to supply water, we can’t benefit.

I think what lets us down in government is that people in key positions do not have the requisite passion for their jobs.
In areas such as agriculture, you cannot do your job in an office. You have to know what’s happening on the ground to effect real change. Swaziland belongs to all of us, we have a responsibility to her growth.

Denzel

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