Urban poverty

Poverty in Chennai, India - The Borgen Project

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Slums in Mumbai India [14001100]

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.

While many areas of Asia are fast developing, many desperate citizens in Manila in the Philippines are forced to find shelter in in whatever makeshift homes they can find in the slums.

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I think it is almost impossible to realize an up-scale world without poverty. Even if we change the appearance of the houses in slums, it will not change the fact of poor. However, I really hope that this could become true.