Campaign
to stamp out alcohol abuse and violence was the headline published
on the front page of the Friday, March 30 2012 West Australian. It’s funny how
quick people are to launch campaigns and raise money to try and resolve,
overcome problems or create awareness. Before they do this do they really do
their homework on what it is they about to do. Creating a campaign to stamp out
alcohol abuse and violence is good but how effective does one think it will be.
Violence and alcohol abuse is everywhere how do these campaigns think they can
control it. We have campaigns such as trying to stop child abuse, child
pornography, women abuse and many others which have not been very effective.
All these different types of abuse still happens around us which means these
campaigns have just created awareness but haven’t really done anything to deter
it from happening or stop it completely. Maybe it has played a bit of a small
role but hey it’s still happening.
I think before creating a campaign
one should look at the root of the problem and try find out why it is that kids
turn to alcohol and violence at such a young age. They should tap into the
roots of a simple family that has these problems. All type of abuse and
violence has a root and that is where one should start if they want these types
of abuse to stop. So if you are to create a campaign try and create one that
would tap into the roots of the problem. There is no need to create awareness
because everyone is or should be aware of what is happening around them. I
believe once the root of the problem is stamped out then your campaign be a
great success.
Anyone agree or disagree
Agree, but you have to bring this to peoples attention as most will tend to 'brush this under the carpet' and state they are fine and have no issues about this.
ReplyDeleteAwareness campaigns such as this are constant reminders about what we should/should not be doing and are good, but agree about getting to the root of the problem. Even if its the biggest issue of everything...family.
Respect, responsibility and communication.
Thanks Keith but if we look at it we see these thing happen everyday so how much more do we need to bring to peoples attention before we can do anything here. Do families rather want to wait for something really bad to happen to someone before they can admit that there was a problem. We should rather create a campaign telling people that it is ok to admit to the problems and it will also be closer to healing for them.
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