While browsing through various social causes on a community site, I came across one called “Kochah”. Kochah is one of the many projects by Farhad Darya; a US based singer and composer, born and brought up in Afghanistan. The project has been launched with an intention to draw the society as well as the governments’ attention, towards orphans and working street children of Afghanistan; who have always suffered. The objective is to reshape the destiny of vulnerable children of Afghanistan, especially the street and under age working ones; who have been a constant victim of more than two decades of war, social and cultural strife in Afghanistan.
The most noticeable thing about this cause is the picture used by its creator, which is of a young Afghani Muslim boy. The boy seems to be crying with his right hand pointing at someone, mouth open as if he is bawling, eyes red with tears and his soul deeply wounded; surrounded by a horde of people standing helplessly behind him. What deeply touched me about this picture is the child’s eye.
Eyes, I have always felt, narrate a story of their own. They have this unique ability to speak about what one is feeling. The intensity might be visible initially and ephemerally; the overall story still being obstinately exhibited. We might be melancholy, jubilant, irate, gloomy or even ecstatic at times; all being evident by close observation of ones eyes.
The most noticeable thing about this cause is the picture used by its creator, which is of a young Afghani Muslim boy. The boy seems to be crying with his right hand pointing at someone, mouth open as if he is bawling, eyes red with tears and his soul deeply wounded; surrounded by a horde of people standing helplessly behind him. What deeply touched me about this picture is the child’s eye.
Eyes, I have always felt, narrate a story of their own. They have this unique ability to speak about what one is feeling. The intensity might be visible initially and ephemerally; the overall story still being obstinately exhibited. We might be melancholy, jubilant, irate, gloomy or even ecstatic at times; all being evident by close observation of ones eyes.
I could indeed sense a lot of sorrow and also despair in those eyes; which for that particular moment made me think what we have become. How ferociously brutal have we become, with the advancement of technology; which ideally should have been used for the protection as well as development of mankind; is worth pondering over. We need to reevaluate ourselves and actually empathise with these children; it’s perhaps then that we might understand the consequences of our wrong-doings. They not only loose their family or their house but also their youth, because of a war; and adolescence, I believe, is a beautiful phase of every individual’s life; once lost then nothing but a forlorn look is to be found. We need to restore the blissfulness in those eyes or else…. all is lost.
4 comments:
You are perfectly right when you say that “We need to restore the blissfulness in those eyes or else…. all is lost”.
I appreciate your concern& sensitivity and want to thank you for your endeavor of highlighting this issue, which needs the attention of world at large.The problem of present day society is that we are happy as long as grass is green and rose is red in our own backyard.The reality is that we are now living in the most advance stage of human civilization,but the irony is that we are in the worst stage of backwardness-------intellectually and morally.
The story you have mentioned is not only about Afghanistan,but same is the case all around the world.Some gets highlighted,some doesn’t.Issues may vary but problem is the same.Broken families,destitute children.Some crying with tears still in their eyes,while from some other eyes blood is flowing.
We as an individual should introspect deep within us to find a solution for all this brutality. We live in an interconnected world and morally we are obliged to make this society a better place to live in.
More than anything what makes me happy is the fact that you have understood the essence of this post. This particular issue has always been a matter of concern for me; for quite sometime now. Perhaps the least that i can do is spread awareness; which might lead to a positive outcome in near future. So, let us all join hands for a better tomorrow and a better future for these children.
to find out more about the Kochah or become a sponsor of a child go to http://www.kochah.org or http://www.farhaddarya.info.
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Thank you for the vital piece of information Naveen. Your effort is sincerely appreciated.
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