Be grateful for all that you have some people are not so fortunate – that’s my message to the world.

It’s  12 :  14  PM on day 1874 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,  read Acts 19, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, learn one new thing –Slavish [slav·ish] adj. Showing no originality; blindly imitative: “A slavish copy of the original work.” –  have breakfast and hang out with my family.

This morning I was thinking about the Western Sahara and the Saharawi people – the Western Sahara has been illegally occupied by Morocco for the past FORTY YEARS which forced the Saharawi people to seek refuge in south-west Algeria – I cannot imagine what it’s like for the Saharawi people they have lived in those tents for forty years basically cut off from the rest of the world with just enough food to survive and hope that they will one day return to their home it’s just not fair that some people have to live in such unliveable conditions while the rest of us sleep on comfy beds and have more than enough of everything to survive and thrive. To the U.N and the African  Union: PLEASE put more pressure on Morocco to leave the Western Sahara. To the rest of us: Let’s raise some hell on behalf of the Saharawi people they have suffered for forty years too long. Special thanks to my hero without a cape Catherine Constantinides who takes every opportunity to tell the world about the Saharawi people after having spent ten days with them in the refugee camp (dude you rock I love you to the moon and back).

To raise awareness about the plight of the Saharawi people please share Gareth Cliff’s interview with Catherine Constantinides far and wide