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As the global founder and backbone of the global chapters of this wonderful humanitarian agency - I wish to tell you of the work that I have done via emails and phone calls - from the USA while never having been to the beautiful continent of Africa myself. I long to go and long to hold the children my work has been saving in my arms. I pray that someone reading this will find it in your heart to help us -
Bajito Onda now has received The Ambassador for Peace Award, Winner of the JCPenney Golden Rule Award (1996), Nominated by the U.N. For the Dubai International Best Practices Award (2004), and Winner of the Transition of Prisoners Award for Most Innovative Prison Aftercare Reintegration Programs’.
Many of you know that Myself aka Bajito Onda Foundation have been featured in: NEWSWEEK, NY TIMES, WORLD MAGAZINE, NPR, ABC, ESPN, FOX NEWS, RADIO UNICA, UNIVISION, TELEMUNDO, NBC, CBS, THE DALLAS OBSERVER, FW STAR TELEGRAM, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, AND MANY OTHER PIECES MANY TIMES OVER.
I am a former prisoner who learned first-hand how horrible it is to experience a trauma like imprisonment, humiliation for not being able to do anything about it at the time one is going through it and then the memories.... Of all the lives I left behind still in the cages of society, albeit paying for their crimes they were imprisoned for.... But I ask you to think ... What after prison? What after abuse? What after abandonment? What after sexual molestation and rape? What after addiction? What is society doing for those of us who came back from our own personal WHAT AFTER?
We can see the horrors of what is happening by society doing nothing or the minimum for the sufferers in society. As I tell the prisoners I go back in and witness to ‘I am here for you because when I needed someone there for me - there was in fact NO ONE.’ As Jesus said.... I was in prison and you visited me - I was hungry and you gave me food - I was naked and you clothed me. I ask you to please humble yourself, forget about your comforts and likes and luxuries and give of what you have and give something to help us help rescue more delicate lives with peace, hope, respect, dignity, knowledge and self-sufficiency so they too can give back.’
The world today is divided into two simple groups - the broken and the healed - functional vs dysfunctional. We must LIVE LIFE - SURVIVE LIFE - LEARN ABOUT LIFE AND TEACH ABOUT LIFE in order for the dysfunction to end.
Mao Ndiaye was one of the beggar children - hopeless - abandoned - thrown away - and his desire to help as many as we can touched my heart - now together he and I are changing a continent.
Mao is from Senegal - he is so bright he speaks fluent Spanish English and his native French - he is acting as program developer for children and has his bachelor and masters degrees in social works and humanitarian efforts.
I have been working with other persons in Africa now for several years - but no one has touched me like Mao. I am honored to appoint him at this time as the African Continent Director and leader of my movement into the trenches of African atrocities where children are worth less than cattle.
Where in many countries they have been used as CHILD SOLDIERS - PREY FOR PREDATORS OF PROSTITUTION and BEGGARS - not for themselves but for their keepers who beat them if they do not pay them daily while being shut into sheds not fit for an animal in the USA.
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