EXPRESSO FRIDAY PHOTOS: INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDP) CAMPS IN NIGERIA

Holiday season is here and in my quiet moments I wonder how people in certain parts of the world will celebrate - what they will eat, drink, where they will sleep? e.t.c. I think about the poor, the needy, the downtrodden, the displaced, the abused in different parts of the world and how they cope with life everyday. These thoughts sometimes keep me awake at night because I continue to think about the women and children in these situations. I think about ways to help them and I thank God for blessing me daily and also ask Him to please bless me more so that I can reach out to more people. I sometimes turn on the faucet at home to brush my teeth and I wonder about the child in Somalia and other parts of the world scooping muddy water to drink due to lack of clean water.  

Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria and in other parts of the world are displaced due to man's inhumanity to man. They leave all they know and are used to due to the violence in their Countries, Towns/Cities. I can never make sense of all the violence and I don't want to. Please, reach out to the needy, the poor and the homeless around you and not just this holiday season but whenever you can and God will definitely bless you as you do so. Also pray for the all the people that are going through hardship and tough times in life. Believe me, some people are going through situations you might think are unimaginable or impossible. Here are some pictures of some Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria. Put yourself in their shoes while going through the pictures and thank God for His mercies. Remember that you have all or some of what you need in life not because of how righteous or perfect a person you are but for the grace of God.

A Malnourished little Angel.

Children eating from the pot at an IDP Camp site.

Internally Displaced People on the move.

The Pictures of the Children especially just breaks my heart.

These Angels have no control over the situations they find themselves in.

Shovel being used to share food at an IDP Camp.

Food shared in buckets at an IDP Camp.

A little Angel fetching water to maybe drink? Take a bath? at an IDP Camp.

Example of food shared at an IDP Camp.

An IDP Camp site.

People waiting to be given food at an IDP Camp.

People line up their plates for food at an IDP Camp.

Imagine waking up to life everyday in these conditions as illustrated above. Giving up all you know or used to so as to survive. What does the future hold for people in situations like these? What does it hold for all of us? May God have mercy on us all.

You are seeing these pictures and may be wondering how poor a country Nigeria is for people to be living in situations like these but the irony of it all is that Nigeria is a country very rich in oil and natural resources. Greed and corruption are interwoven in the fabrics of the Nation. It is a country where people in power embezzle Millions and Billions of Dollars and go Scot free...yeah, you heard right the first time, Millions and Billions of Dollars are embezzled and siphoned and in majority of the cases, the people involved get away with it unless they are prosecuted in foreign countries e.g A former Governor named James Ibori that is jailed in the U.K for corruption charges. He most likely would never have been jailed or made accountable for his actions if he was in Nigeria. There are way too many "Iboris" living in Nigeria and they get away with their corruption and greed. How can one person steal Millions or Billions of Dollars meant for the masses, watch the masses suffer and still not be moved by the human suffering witnessed almost everywhere in the country? How?

To all the people genuinely helping out at the Internally Displaced Persons Camps, homeless shelters e.t.c, people donating money, food, clothes, e.t.c to people in need around them or to people in need that they have never come across or may never come across, may God never forget you and your generations to come, amen.

This post is an Expresso Friday Post, where you are free to pour out your thoughts and feelings. I just shared my feelings and I feel much better. I was crying in the beginning as I started writing this post but not anymore. Feel free to share yours.