#vulnerable children

[farmerstrend]

How Hydroponic Farming is Transforming Lives at Al-Walidayn Rescue Center in Kwale

“Discover how Al-Walidayn Rescue Center in Kwale, Kenya, empowers vulnerable children through innovative hydroponic farming, vocational training, and a holistic approach to building brighter futures.” “Learn how Al-Walidayn Rescue Center transforms lives by teaching sustainable farming and life skills to rescued children, fostering independence and resilience in Kwale County.” “Explore the…

[kazifatagar]

Clean Energy is Essential for Sustainable Development for Vulnerable Children

By Dr. Salmon Jacob, Regional Climate Change Adaptation Advisor for World Vision East Asia Energy, as we know, is the driving force for all development. But, as climate change becomes an existential threat to every person on the planet, especially the most vulnerable children and their communities, it is critical to recognise the need for clean energy as a means to tackle the issue of rising…

[justmebeingdifferent33]

Speaking with actor Jason Watkins about my childhood.

When I’d just self-published ‘Poems From a Runaway’ the Charity ‘Missing People’ got in touch. As well as writing a blog for them which I currently can’t find, I spoke with actor Jason Watkins as part of the charity appeal. Please do consider supporting Missing People as often the efforts undertaken behind the scenes to care, protect and reunite people and families can be easily overlooked.…

[cheesenchalk]

i never know how to phrase it but something about the way beatles biographers and people in general view paul's reflexive placating persona and determination to smooth things over as manipulative or duplicitous and john's reflexive barbed persona and habit of lashing out as brave and subversive despite both being equally defensive mechanisms to shield themselves from the world that resulted in them saying things that weren't true says more about how we culturally view kindness or friendliness as inherently untrustworthy or flimsy and anger and carelessness as more believable as someone's true nature than it says about either of them in actuality

[thehealingsystem]

if you ever wonder why I don't interact with the traumagenic community as a traumagenic system this is why

[sortanonymous]

[butchdiaz]

everyone manifest 8x05 firehouse no calls bottle episode with me

[captainkirkk]

I'm now on season 2 of my Natsume Yujinchou rewatch, and I love seeing the marked difference in the way Natsume is treated.

In season 1, we get a very withdrawn, very fake Natsume - quiet, smiling pleasantly but clearly looking right through people, apologising for taking up space. People like him right away but don't know how to breach that distance. But towards the end of season 1/ into season 2, we see people understanding Natsume more and more and deciding to close that distance by reaching out to him with affection. We see them teaching Natsume how to be loved.

We also get more people recognising and seeing straight through Natsume's bullshit, ESPECIALLY Nyanko-sensei.

Natsume: "My temperature is a little over 37 degrees."

Nyanko-sensei: "You should rest then."

Natsume: "I took some medicine. I should be fine if I don't do much. I don't want to worry Touko-san."

Nyanko-sensei: "Geez, how long will it take you to realise?"

Natsume, entirely oblivious to just how much he's loved and wanted: "...Realise what?"

[princessefemmelesbian]

Maybe I’m just being dramatic but it does legitimately scare and sadden me to see that a lot of transandrophobia truthers are literally just…young boys. Like, actual children. Like you’re not even old enough to vote yet and you have your whole life ahead of you and yet you are being manipulated into joining an mra group that hates trans women with a passion and thinks that men are oppressed in society for being men, and constantly uses Black men as their talking point in order to sound diverse and inclusive, meanwhile they’re also appropriating and misusing terminology specifically created by Black women to talk about our own oppression in order to get their misandry point across…to say nothing of the fact that the largest people in this group(including but not limited to its creator!) have misogynistic rape/detrans kinks centered specifically around preying on lesbians and trans women and this is something that is normalized and defended by the vast majority of transandrophobia truthers, or at least defended viciously by every single transandrodork that I’ve ever encountered who argued with me(a lesbian!!!) that actually there’s nothing wrong with getting off to the corrective rape of women because two consenting adults can do whatever they want in the bedroom(yeah right)! Not to mention I have yet to come across a transandrophobia truther who wasn’t also a raging die-hard Zionist.

And that’s why it disturbs me so much to see young trans boys jumping onto this transmisogynistic hate train like you guys realize these men don’t have your best interests at heart, right? They’re only going to manipulate you into being a sexist entitled asshat who shuns and bullies the trans women in your community and sees them as oppressing you. Like I know you’re still in middle/high school but you can still think for yourselves, you can choose to be better than this, you can choose to actually learn about feminism and realize that it’s not actually misandry that oppresses you, it’s transphobia. Misandry doesn’t suddenly become real because you slap a trans paint over it that’s not how it works that’s not how intersectionality works that’s not how any of this shit works. There are better trans men to talk to about trans issues who know that the patriarchy is real and don’t shit on trans women in order to speak out about trans topics, so go seek them out, okay? You absolutely do not have to listen to shit that the “male supremacists but trans” group of lowlives has to say. Hell, tell them to fuck off instead! Please, I promise you that there are much better options, there are ALWAYS better options, and you still have time to escape before they fully radicalize you into basically being an incel. There will ALWAYS be another way. ❤️

[the-daily-dreamer]

Great episode for my fellow Alicent enjoyers.

Apologizing to Aegon and holding him. Cupping Aemond’s cheek even through all the strife they’ve had recently. Protecting Helaena and running to save her. Conversing with Gwayne about Daeron and showing her vulnerability. Showing that she feels like a failure as a mother. Gwayne being the only person to tell her ‘I see you. You did what you could. You did your best’.

They’re showing all the love my girl has. She’s filled with it. But where can it go? Her love is broken. It’s sharp and cuts like glass, but it’s there and she tried.

[boba-pearl-writes]

1/26 - shame - word count: 637 - @rosekillermicrofic

Barty knew something was wrong as soon as Evan came into the common room with red rimmed eyes and his tan skin suspiciously paler than usual.

Well, actually, Barty knew something was wrong when Evan had skipped breakfast. Sure, Evan wasn’t a morning person, but he usually showed up to breakfast before it ended, even if he was a bit late. So, Barty usually didn’t wake him up, and Evan made his way down a few minutes after, groaning and rubbing his eyes like a sleepy cat. It was absolutely adorable.

But not today.

No, today, Barty had been worried all of breakfast and, now that he saw him, his worry didn’t really go away.

Evan stood there, looking a bit like he’d rather go back to the comfort of his bed. Then, he narrowed his eyes as if trying to will them back into focus, and walked over to where Barty was sitting. He dropped down next to him, and sat there, not saying a word.

Barty and Regulus - the ones nearest to him - looked at him expectantly.

“What?” Evan asked, annoyed, his voice rough and raspy. He sniffled a bit, wiping at his nose.

“Are you… okay?” Barty asked, hesitantly.

“Why didn’t you wake me up this morning?” Evan asked in response, turning to Barty. He looked genuinely annoyed, and Barty was confused.

“I thought you needed your sleep,” Barty said.

“I’m not sick.”

“No one said you were.”

“Well, I’m not.”

“Alright,” Barty said, smirking. He knew Evan got annoyed easily when he was sick, but he also knew he couldn’t take care of himself for the life of him. “I was going to go out today. Maybe start a snowball fight… wanna join?” Barty saw the alarm on Evan’s face.

“I… I can’t today.”

“Aw, that’s a shame,” Barty said. “Why not, Evs?”

Evan was quiet for a long moment.

Barty put a hand on Evan’s knee. “Why not?” He asked again, softly.

“What do you think, Barty?” Evan snapped, turning to Barty. He looked angry, yes, but mostly tired. “Yesterday, I accidentally stayed out too long and now I can’t even fucking talk without my voice sounding like-” he cut himself off, waving his hands around “-this. And, it’s always too fucking cold all the-” whatever Evan was about to say next got cut off by a really harsh cough, which devolved into a coughing fit. Barty rubbed his back, concerned. After he stopped coughing, Evan just dropped back in his seat with a huff and sat there staring at the floor, looking miserable.

From this close, Evan really did look tired. Tired, annoyed, and just,,, frustrated. Barty got that, he really did- he hated being vulnerable in any sort of way and being sick was the worst because of that. He could imagine Evan felt the same- like he wanted to be okay and he wanted to ask for help to get there, but couldn’t. 

“Hey,” Barty said softly, and Evan turned to look at him.  Barty put an arm around him, and Evan curled into his side, his head dropping onto Barty’s shoulder.  He was shivering, even though they were near the fire and it was warm inside. Barty tightened his grip around Evan’s shoulders. “This better?” He asked softly. Evan nodded against him. 

Soon enough, Evan’s breaths had slowed down and his eyes had closed. Merlin knew he needed this rest. 

Barty rested his head on Evan’s, then noticed Regulus smiling at them. Nothing much, just a small tug at the corner of his mouth, but softer than Barty would usually see from him. 

This moment felt a bit fragile, a bit breakable, but one that Barty would hold with the most care his calloused hands could manage, if it meant getting to keep that joy inside his heart. 

[mirrorofliterature]

I saw someone calling anakin an 'impossible kid' and I'm like. well that's an interesting way to say:

- former traumatised slave that's disabled because of that and is experiencing severe culture shock

but sure, it's the kid's fault, not the adults who should have been like. compassionate. to a kid. as jedi are supposed to be.

(anyway recommend me anakin culture shock fics and fics where the jedi actually accommodate him)

[kacievvbbbb]

But what if I said Mihawk

*puts my hand on your back as I lead you down an endless hallway* walk with me.

Mihawk not wanting shanks to know how much he means to him. How he was the only barrier between Mihawk and and an all consuming nihilistic loneliness. How he hides himself so thoroughly that he feels he needs an excuse to be around shanks. If it’s not dueling then it’s bringing him a wanted poster Mihawk can’t just see Shanks because then he’ll know! He’ll know that he is all Mihawk has and that sometimes the loneliness he’s surrounded himself in suffocated him threatens to swallow him whole.

That he knows Shanks loves him has no doubt about it Shanks is incapable of not loving the people around him. And Mihawk doesn’t know what to dj with it. Doesn’t know how to love him back. Doesn’t know how to love without the weight of expectation . Doesn’t know how to stay without feeling restlessness settle in his skin. Doesn’t know how to be bad at something and so he avoids it. Let’s himself get swept up in Shanks love and never think about what it might mean to love him back whole heartedly (because he does he always has he always will even when they were ten years apart the only face he ever wanted to see at the end of a blade was shanks this is the only way Mihawk knows how to love)

Mihawk by his nature is casually cruel. He’s callous with people and capricious.Mihawk is terrible at making friends in the way all lonely people are. Doesn’t even know he needs friends. He places to much on shanks. Revolved his life wholly around the expectations on him. He said a lot of things he regrets that day. Some part of him still desperately wishes to see that smiling boy with the straw hat and 2 arms again live and in motion. He doesn’t know how to be sorry for this. Doesn’t know how to apologize at all. Doesn’t know what the weight of guilt is supposed to feel like. But Mihawk is sorry for the words he said that night, he didn’t mean them. He’ll never say that tho. But he will show up with a wanted poster and takes of the exploits of a smiling young boy with a straw hat and a body nit made of rubber. (It’s not the same but he’s glad that boy wasn’t gone forever that he gets to live on in color and motion)

There is a green haired swordsman that has changed the trajectory of Mihawks life. And a pink haired ghost girl that’s complicated his entire philosophy and the red headed man that is the catalyst that started it all. Mihawk has changed in the 2 years of having known these 2 kids more than in his 41 past years of being alive. There is nothing as undoing as a child. Maybe Mihawk can just love for the sake of it no expectations, no requirements, no guilt

[stormyoceans]

feeling faint every time i look at this moment specifically. it's just so tender so loving so gentle. phum says peem treats him like a kid but there's just something so high romance in this small gesture to me. it's peem saying 'you've been quiet and im not sure how to deal with this side of you im not familiar with but whatever it is im here for you and i will keep you safe' and im honestly insane about it

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

Crying in the club rn

[bloodfreak-boyking]

just make out already