foster care

[LobsterUnit]

Some kneegrows I grew up with, mostly those raised by their aunties or uncles, moved to foster care so they can receive weekly allowance.nowadays, many somali children live with foster carers as the extended families normally refuse to look after them and the community doesn not participate in foster care programmes or adopt children for the most part.most children are there because of neglect issues.

[thehappyone]

I knew a Russian police captain
back in the day.


He told me about a
case he worked on.


Can't remember the guy's name.


He was a famous scholar,
lived in Moscow.


He was a humanitarian,
an author.


Anyway, he decided


to share his abundance with someone
less fortunate.


And even though he
had five beautiful


children, he opened
his home to a sixth.


An orphan, 12-year-old boy.


Kid had been pounded
by the system from an early age.


Troubled.


Prone to violence. A lost cause.


- Stop me if you know this one.
- Oh, no. Carry on.


Okay. So this good man
opened his home to this boy.


And when the boy stole from him,


this good man loved him anyway.


When the boy failed
in school, this good


man showed understanding
and patience.


When the boy lied and cheated
and clawed and fought,


this good man showed
compassion and love


until the boy, who
had never felt


anything like being
wanted or loved,


he finally did.


The man had broken through.


By all accounts,
it was a miracle.


One week later, intruders broke
into the man's house.


Killed the man and his wife in bed.


They said some small things
were stolen,


things a child might steal.


No one knows for sure.


The man's children
were sent off to live relatives.


The boy, the orphan,
shipped back to hell.


Just when he finally
had a chance at life,


it was snatched away
by two bullets.


- It's a well-known story.
- Mm. They ever catch who did it?


Did they?


Maybe they didn't look
in the right place.


Sometimes the answer's
in front of you.


I think the boy killed them.


Yeah. I think the boy did it.


I think the boy was scared


that his foster parents would
wake up one day


and realize that he wasn't worth it,
like all the others had.


And he couldn't bear the
thought that this man,


this good man would do that to him.
Would

throw him away...


like a piece of lint or a bottle cap.


So...


he decided not to find out.


What do you think, Nicolai?

[Libix]

Horta what i find disturbing is the fact that we Somalis take great pleasures in seeing our own suffer the unthinkable but cry river over some knobheads we share fuck all with other than religion. Allah goormee ka bixi doona dhiig la aantan tollow! uffffff!