Postby Mangafanatic » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:04 pm
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." It's easy to say you'd buy it later, but it's alot harder to cough up that cash when you've already read the story. My advice-- don't give the devil a foot hold. Just buy the licensed manga. I know it's really tempting (I'm DYING to find out what happen in Fruits Basket, so I pretty much have to tie myself down when I see advertisements for a complete Fruits Basket scanlation CD), but we owe it to the companies who provide us with manga to support them with our patronage.
Every year in Uganda, innumerable children simply. . . disappear. These children all stolen under the cover of darkness from their homes and impressed into the guerilla armies of the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army]. In the deserts of Uganda, they are forced to witness the mindless slaughter of other children until they themselves can do nothing but kill.
Kill. These children, generally ranging from ages 5-12, are brainwashed into murdering in the name of the resistance and into stealing other children from their beds to suffer the same fate.
Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.
But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality,
visit the Invisible Children home page.