Charles Wayo

The story of Charles Wayo is about how a boy walked all the way across Africa into Europe to find his penpal who is a member of the US Army and he was stationed in Turkey. One thing about the story that bothered me is how impoverished he was that he would want to walk all that way across Africa into Europe to find his penpal so he get a better life. I know that there are a lot of problems in Africa, Asia and the rest of the world when it comes to poverty but it's really shocking that a 13 year old boy would do that. I know that there are a lot of organizations trying to help out over there by dropping off food, medical supplies and other things but what I think they should do is try to get some of these people doing jobs instead of sending them food send them material so they can grow their own food.

I know that you're probably thinking while you can't just grow food out of nowhere that it has to be the right type of land. But if we just keep on giving them food then that's all they will depend on and that's not good. But anyways that's just my opinion...