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“Please Mr Bumble, can I have some more...” Oliver asked in a small, quivering squeak.
“MORE !” thundered Mr Bumble
In the Yemen, women, men and children need more to eat.
In Cameroon, men, women and children need more health care, more public infrastructures and more political freedom.
In Dubai, immigrant workers need more basic rights, more labor protection and more permanent houses and shops. Not the shanty towns where they are left to slumb their lives away in squalor, while the rich get richer in their glass and metal towers, oblivious to their plight.
To cite but a smithering of the issues the forgotten populations of the world are facing. And they are many and live far and wide across the planet.
So when the rich Northern countries cry for more of everything, I shout back at them :
“ Shut Up and look around you. The world needs more of your Attention, more of your Care, more of your Engagement, more of your Financial Help and more of your Love if we, as a species are to survive !”
An extract from the musical Oliver, that painted a fairytale version of Charles Dicken’s grim novel.
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