As you stroll through the bustling city of Marrakech, feel the endless charm of the red buildings; When you stroll through the romantic and pleasant Agadir, immerse yourself in the night of singing and dancing and the traffic is developed;
...... as you set foot in the ancient city of Meknes, surrounded by a rich World Heritage SiteYou may be tempted to sigh: Africa, so beautiful. But did you know that there are also cities in Africa where people seem to have nothing to do every day, but they always stay by the garbage dump early in the morning, frantically searching for glue, and then indulging in smoking, as if obsessed?
Is glue really a rare and precious treasure?
On the contrary, glue is not a nutritional supplement, but a dangerous, addictive liquid. Every year, a large number of people die in Africa due to glue ing, but the number of people who smoke glue continues to grow.
Why are these people so keen on self-harm? Africa is the second largest continent on Earth, covering an area of 30.2 million square kilometers, but the total population has reached about 128.5 billion, which is a huge challenge for Africa, which is unevenly developed and even lagging behind in many places.
With the impact of the pandemic, the proportion of people living in poverty in Africa has risen to 341%, the number of jobs has declined, and the competition for jobs has become more intense.
However, the African market is in short supply, with 10 million to 12 million jobs needed each year, while the market offers only 3.1 million, which means that about 7 million to 8 million Africans face job challenges and their basic needs are not guaranteed.
The slums of the city of Nairobi, made up of tightly packed tin huts, are crossed by a railway in the middle, giving rise to the famous "train stalls". The people who live in it, with a messy environment and a lack of livelihood security, have to fight to survive every day when they wake up, and poverty almost deprives them of their freedom.
In this region, the gray economy has quietly emerged, and some women are even forced to make ** changes; Children and elderly people can be seen everywhere on the roadside, and even conflicts can be caused by the competition for several bottles; There are also people who blatantly carry out robberies ......Despite this, many people are still starving to death due to food shortages.
The lives of Africa's poor cannot be described as exquisite, due to poor infrastructure, their toilets are open-air, some toilets do not even have flushing facilities, and discarded garbage is often left uncleaned, resulting in a foul smell and flies flying in many places.
Even so, there are still many unemployed people who wander in the garbage heaps every day, some of them because they are hungry and looking for food; Others want to make money by rummaging through garbage.
In order to survive, they are willing to eat whatever food they can find and even suck glue, which is where "glue hunger" comes from.
This glue, although it smells unbearable, it stimulates the curiosity of small children in the garbage heap. At first, the children just sniffed a few times with curiosity, but to their surprise, they found that they were not so hungry!
So, they naively thought they had found a miracle product to fight hunger and couldn't wait to share it with their friends and try it together. As a result, the glue gives them a dizzy feeling and even makes them forget about hunger.
For a while, the news of smoking glue spread quickly among the crowd, and both men, women, and children had a strong interest in it. Many people, even young people, have chosen to give up their jobs to snap up glue.
With the job market saturated, labor has become unusually cheap. However, in reality, most of this glue is from industry and contains a variety of additives. Many of these chemicals are very harmful to human health, have a bad smell, and are difficult for people to quit due to the addition of addictive inorganic solutions.
Although they knew that this unpleasant and pungent glue was not a good medicine, they did not care about it, and over time, glue smoking became a common practice on the streets of Africa.
Glue "lovers" can be found all over Africa. They put glue into a bottle or into the collar of their coats, and whenever hunger strikes, they bring their noses close to the bottle, inhale it vigorously, and stuff it into their mouths.
After smoking, they sit down on the floor or lie flat on their backs, enjoying the thrill of glue to curb hunger.
Demand and business secrets are inseparable, profiteers take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, and use the addictive nature of glue to make huge profits. Ironically, this potentially life-threatening commodity is not banned.
Some denounce these profiteers for ignoring the lives of others, while others believe that supply and demand are the cause of all this, and even though the profiteers don't sell glue, there are still a large number of Africans who rummage through the garbage in search of glue to keep their lives going.
The more times the glue is sucked, the stronger the paralyzing effect on the human body, just like taking drugs, so that the cranial nerves are forced into a state of emptiness, and people's reason is almost gone.
When people lose their minds under the anesthesia of glue, they will become uncontrollable, and even if they are faced with things that are contrary to their wishes, they will immediately become angry, impulsive, and do any unpredictable behavior, as if they are possessed by demons, even more terrifying than zombies.
The crime rate in Africa has risen dramatically during the glue epidemic, and the number of people who die directly or indirectly from glue is also increasing every year, which is a serious warning.
Zombies are feared because they have lost their humanity and reason, and only know violence and aggression, and that kind of world will be a purgatory on earth, and everyone who is controlled by glue will become an emotionless walking corpse, and all this will not only destroy themselves, but also implicate their families.
Therefore, we must be vigilant and stay away from this dangerous drug.