Slavery: The state of being under control of another person.

Slavery today is used for a variety of reasons including intense labour, debt bondage and, sex slavery.
sex slavery is the largest contributor to Human Trafficking, set to be one of the largest smuggling businesses of 2010.

You may be thinking from your history lessons that slavery has officially been abolished and is now outlawed in all countries and by the United Nations, but the fact is that SLAVERY still EXISTS in 2010.

Imagine a generation of young people rising up and becoming all that they are created to be.
Young people who stand up and make a difference in their day-to-day world,
changing their schools, impacting their communities, changing lives.

Imagine a generation of young people singing a new tune…
Its language is love.

Rejection replaced by Acceptance
No Way Out replaced by Hope
Blindness replaced by Faith
Brokenness replaced by Restoration
Hate replaced by Love . . .

Human rights – we all take it for granted. We can go around expressing our personal feelings and believe in anything we want. For others it isn’t as easy. Refugees and Asylum Seekers are people who have left their home country to seek a better life in another. But, when they come over to this country, their lives don’t get much better. These people have a silent voice in society. They can end up feeling like they are practically invisible. They aren’t listened to, and they’re not always accepted in the community.

So the people from ICareRevolution came in to speak to the entire Student Body at Hatch End High School today. It stirred the same inspiration in me that I get every time a charity comes to speak, and previously I’ve always joined up, signed up to help and passed email addresses on, but it’s never enough. Honestly, what good does £2 a month do for starving children in Africa?

“My name is Marty. I’m 15. I’m in my last year of school. School is ok. I have friends. We laugh. We have fun. I have exams but I find it hard to revise. I love music. I love singing and I love dancing. I like a lot of things...but I don’t like home.
I really don’t like home.
I hate home!
I hate going home.
I hate being at home.
I hate even thinking about home.

I've been thinking about 2010 a lot recently and the fact that we are coming to the end of January already. Another 8 days to go and in comes February. New Year’s Resolutions seem long gone, and if you’re anything like me . . . Goal: Get more organized. 23 days into the new year and how am I doing...? Results: Already broken - several times!
The New Year comes in and we are so excited and hopeful that this will be better than the last. I was reading through the most common New Year’s Resolutions that young people make and here is what I came across. . .

Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when there is the possibility that you will never see that person again but people move, things change and as they say, life goes on. It's harder to say goodbye to some people more than others, all depending on how much they've impacted your life...

I had to say bye to someone this week. It wasn't easy and I've shed many tears (on the London Underground of all places!!) The worst thing is I didn't realise how influential this person had been to my life until it came to the moment when I had to say good-bye.

Today I've been surfing the net, trying to find some answers to the questions I have had in my head lately. Questions of success, money and how they are related. Hopefully I will post a blog on my conclusions at some point, but for now I will leave ya'll with this quote I stumbled upon that will certainly make me question some tings. Its from everybody's favorite leader of the free world: American president Barack Obama.