Ghost Children

Ghost Children - Children's Voices

The ghost children are the forgotten ones.

The ghost children are those who, like the street children of Cusco, sell cheap wares from baskets, sleep in doorways, get beaten with rods by adults. They may be alive, but their voices are silenced.

The ghost children are those, like Erica Baker, who went to walk her dog on a rainy day and vanished. For awhile Erica's picture and news about the search filled the headlines. They found a pink pooh shirt like her own discarded in the mud, but it wasn't hers. Now, only two months later, the posters that were pinned to Star Bank and the Corner Cleaner's windows have been torn down.

The ghost children are historical, they have a nearly silent history. Have you seen the children of the eastern jungles of Bolivia before the rubber merchants enslaved them? Have you heard the little Chinese girls who were sold by their fathers to brothels when the city of Singapore was decreed by the British to become their central port, when the starving patriarchs, the "coolies" of south China filled the British port in search of work and a bowl of rice.

The hungry child, the child slave, can you hear them playing? Stranger Abducted Children Street Children of Cusco Prince Peter Kropotkin and Child Labor Children and Hunger in an Andean Village Iraqi Girl Youth and institutionalized racism in America - the summer camp experience Chiapas. Includes a letter from the children of the Actael massacre

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