ColvenComp1RoughLetter

John Colven April 5th, 2011 Dear President Obama, My name is Oluchi Lesotha and I am a citizen of Darfur, Sudan. This letter is to tell you that Darfur needs your help, along with the people that live here. We have to suffer from all of these horrible things every day. You couldn’t even imagine what it’s like to be in my shoes or any of our shoes. We expected to get help from somebody months ago but we are still in our rotten internally displaced person camps. People are dying in here too, not just out there. These camps have disease floating around everywhere, infecting all of the children that are even younger than me. A day ago, I saw a little boy lose his younger sister to sickness. There are no people in here with friends or family to help each other through these rough times. I bet you don’t see things like this every day. But we see this literally every day. I don’t know what was worse, living in these camps, or living outside of them where we were being hunted down by the Janjaweed. Your people are lucky to have a reliable government to protect them. Our government is hiring militias to kill us for their own personal gain. I’m not trying to be rude but can we get some sympathy? Imagine your kids being raped and killed in a matter of twenty minutes. Wouldn’t you want something to be done or make it so that there is a way that it could be stopped? It wouldn’t be hard for you because you’re the president but I am an eleven year old boy and I have no power. Just please help us before there is no one for you to help at all.

 Sincerely,

 Oluchi Lesotha

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