It is hope for the human spirit that Mawunyo could manifest another life in daydreaming and looking to the future. Thank you for telling this story. It is sad, and makes me angry. I wish that the volunteers were trained to know what kind of abuse goes on while they are playing their guitars and planting dreams for the children. It is a human story, played out in so many places. It makes me think of that saying going around “When you see something, say something.” Too often when we do however, we are shut down or shut 0ut. It is writers like you who are left with the power of exposing the human rights abuses and enslavement. And who is to say that the mother didn’t “want” to take care of her child? That is a narrative that must be stopped. I would love to take each and every child aside and say “you are loved…your mother dreams of you…, watch the eagles and the birds…for one day, you too will fly away.

“Hold fast to your dreams, for if they die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes