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Larousse : Freedom, the power to act or not to act
Larousse : Freedom, the power to act or not to act
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What to do when this freedom becomes a malediction and when one doesn't feel the strength to assume it, to face up to it?
The urban jungle is pitiless towards the weak. Some of them end up dreaming of a haven, even temporary, of a break in the breathless fight for survival. Karachi, Pakistan, a metropolis where the number of inhabitants oscillates around fifteen millions. It is there that Edhi, nick-named "the male Mother Theresa" has decided to help the rejected people, distributing more than a million free meals a day and saving lives thanks to his armada of ambulances more efficient than those run by the State. And there are also the famous "Edhi centres" which welcome the mentally handicapped, child pickpockets, repudiated wives, abandoned old people. Yet these refuges are anything but idyllic and rather evoke the waiting room of hell. Nevertheless they are transitory haven of peace. True freedom has its value and it has to be built. Often with the help of others. Jean Mohr
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