Help our children along the right way

THE EDITOR, Sir:

YOUR photographers continue to present the Jamaican child in varying moods and circumstances which speak to us, in the main, of happy children, bright children, children of whom we can be proud and children who give us hope for the future.

However, on the front page of The Gleaner of Saturday, August 11, we were presented with a real tear-jerker - that abandoned child. So often that proverb from Africa is quoted to us "It takes a village to raise a child." Here it takes a community to abandon a child. Was that child Nobody's Child?

That child did not cower in a corner and cry, nor hide under a bed or a table. He/she was on the move ­ going somewhere. That was young courage.

We in Jamaica must find a way to help our children along the right way.

I am, etc.,

ELSIE SAYLE

21 Hopeglade Mews

Kingston 6

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