Who will help the vulnerable children of the world?
So many children are suffering from war, famine, poverty. Arthur C. Clarke writes that when the children of the world are damaged by war, poverty, and famine, the future of that country is lost. (first published in February 2017). Unfortunately, the world has not changed for the better in the last seven years and children continue to bear the brunt of the suffering in so many places.
“It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, and its will to survive utterly broken, when its children are taken from it.” Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.
Childhood Lost – charcoal in Strathmore Toned Tan Sketchbook.
The dark charcoal matches the questioning look of a child waiting for a bit of hope in his life. Hope for shelter, food, warmth, love of family, peace, end of bombing and shelling, end of gang wars, …
Too many children have seen horrors they should have never seen.
I have painted other children with questioning looks.
We have not learned from history. What kind of future can a country hope for when the youngest generation is lost or damaged?
Other vulnerable people I have painted with charcoal include the homeless.
“They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.” Isaiah 49:10.
You would have hoped the world would be a better place – but nothing seems to have changed
How right you are, Graham. And how sad it is…
Un portrait très émouvant, quel regard!
Merci bien Arthenice. Ce sont les images des enfants qui me touchent le plus, les regards désespérés, l’horreur du vécu journalier dans le visage, la peur, la faim, ….une souffrance inimaginable et bouleversante.