“Super Pepo” The musical Yesterday we had a very moving show at school. None of the schools of our friends has such an assembly hall as big as ours. We were a bit scared when we started rehearsing our musical, seeing so many empty seats in front of us. It’s going to be hard work, filling the hall. We worked hard, and when the time came, all seats were sold out! The teacher told us not to look through the curtains, but we couldn’t stop it. We looked carefully from one of the side curtains. Everybody was there, friends, families and schoolmates. We were very nervous, and moved at the same time. We had achieved an important goal: to help people in need… I’ll tell you how this story started two months ago: I was already in bed, listening to my mother’s radio. They were talking about Haiti; lots of people were dying of cholera, a disease that only affects the poorest people. -“That’s unfair”, said my mother I couldn’t sleep; my head was full of questions: What sort of sickness affects only the poor? Does it visit banks to see if there is little money? I got scared, for I had just spent most of my savings in a computer game. -Why did mum say it’s unfair? I have been told at home that I have rights and obligations. I try to have more rights, but I never thought, not being sick, was a right. My God! Am I going to have problems with my empty piggy bank? Next day I started an investigation. Our motto at the “superhero academy” is “when in doubt, look for information”. The first thing I discovered made me angry.
-Cholera appears where there is no clean water or sewage system. That’s why it affects the poor! On the other hand it’s easy to cure, you only need water! How is it possible then that so many people are affected? Here you only have to open a tap to get all the water you need. The unfairness made me sad. The poorest people get sick because there is no potable water or sewage system where they live.