Poverty photography

Freedom's Fearful Foe : Poverty

About a fifth of mankind still live in abject poverty, dispute the numerous national and global efforts during the past years on the first target of the Millennium Development Goals which aimed to decrease extreme poverty by one-half by the year 2015. Abdou Touray, Programme Specialist – Poverty and MDGs at the United Nations Development Programme country office in The Gambia said as of 2011 the poorest 40 percent of the world’s population account for 5 percent of global income and the…

Poverty in other countries is not comparable to the poverty in the US. As we see in this picture how families have to live in slums and even bathe in dirty water every day of their lives. According to UNICEF more than 22,000 children die from poverty each day. Pictures like these allow people to understand and get a sense of what it is like to truly live in poverty.

When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government’s delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I was struck by how much the international development landscape is changing. Where governments were once the primary source of development assistance, today the private sector, civil society, academia and donors are all working together to discover, fund and scale innovative solutions to longtime development challenges.

Cleveland's child poverty rate is among the worst in the nation. And conditions aren't much better for adults.

I am Kumander Sator, recently residing at North Cotabato, Mindanao Island in the Philippines. I am a vlogger, a faith healer and a book writer. I come from a poor family. And here in the area where I live, there are many indigenous people living who are experiencing extreme hardship especially now during the pandemic. Due to frequent lockdowns, indigenous people have difficulty bringing their products to the town markets. I see that instead of eating three times a day they only eat once or…

I stare at this image a lot. I ask myself how . . . and why . . . and feel so helpless in making a difference. I know a lot of people care. I know a lot more people are living at the door's edge a paycheck away from homelessness on the streets. And that's a scary place to be. It's a scene each and everyone of us could end up in given a wrong set of circumstances or decisions.

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Nepal 2003