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Nearly 70% of Madagascar's population was living below the poverty line with the country coming in at 143 out of the poorest 177 countries in the world. Poverty rises to 85% in rural areas, which is home to 80% of the country's 20 million population. Most families rely on subsistence farming from a plot barely larger than 1.3 hectares and such farm land is becomingly increasingly stretched as the population rises.
A smallish food bank in St John the Baptist (Anglican Church, Markyate, Hertfordshire). Many of you will be aware of the so-called "cost of living crisis" in the UK. This is Orwellian Newspeak. The truth is that we have a lot of poverty in Britain. My village, Markyate, is in general a prosperous place. I don't think that anybody goes hungry here. But it is also clear that more and more people feel the squeeze, even in this village, and that some are desperate to make ends meet. They may not go hungry, but they might lose their home. I am hearing that a food bank was opened in one of the schools of a neighbouring village and that among its customers are teachers from this school. Britain is in this respect returning to Dickensian times and we do need a new Friedrich Engels writing a new study of "the situation of the working class in England". Fuji X-E2.
make do as living quarters at the DRC, Swakopmund
- running water, sanitation etc (when working) a mile away
Poverty, this is the series for this week. 7 photos to embarrass us. 7 poingnant photos, with seven poingnant titles. There is a series that seeks no controversy, only the reality of the street in the 21th century. If you are looking for something fun or beautiful, better than this week go to another thread, if you want a pictures of sad life on our streets are welcome here. Thank you in advance for all visits and comments.
Have a nice Sunday my friends!
After this series I will do a little break on Flickr, see you soon! Thanks for your great support! =O)
Some places in the world there is no food and other there is plenty and not enough people to eat it.
Hope you have a good weekend and spare a thought for those who won't be.
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Another begging poor man on the street
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من از دیار عروسکها می آیم
از زیر سایه های درختان کاغذی
در باغ یک کتاب مصور
از فصل های خشک تجربه های عقیم دوستی و عشق
در کوچه های خاکی معصومیت
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A child in "Sange Siah" neighborhood, Shiraz, Iran, March 2002
I have visited many houses on that neighborhood, and in all of them the common issues were extreme poverty and minimum standards of life.
I have put this picture here to remember what I promised myself on that time;
To rememeber a child who was playing with a headless doll,
To remember the old disable(paralysis) woman living in a damp,shrinked room as small as a bathroom with no carpet,
To rememeber the young woman with two children and the income of 6000 tomans for two months!
To listen to some international accounts of the current debt crisis you might be forgiven for thinking that the 300 billion euros Greece owes has been used to fund some kind of Balkan version of a Scandinavian welfare state. That the money has been spent on funding an unsustainably generous social safety net..
However, even a brief visit to the country's decrepit hospitals and threadbare schools is enough to disabuse even you of the idea that that the huge mountain of debt accumulated has been used to improve the lives of the poorest Greeks.
While in theory Greece has a welfare state that compares with other EU members the reality is that much of this provision is of low quality or non-existent. As a result of such systematic deficiencies people are forced to pay for services that other Europeans take for granted. Few, if any student entering the countries universities have got there without massive investment of time and money by parents in the form of expensive extra tuition.
Similarly, medical treatment in the country's supposedly free health care system costs billions in terms private charges and bribes.
Instead most of the money has simply evaporated in a miasma of corruption and incompetence which sees that any public service contract almost invariably goes over cost and requires double or triple the time originally alloted.
Case in point is the underground system being built in the northern port city of Thessaloniki which started 45 months ago and already is 32 months behind schedule. That number is set to rise as the Italian construction company which won the contract has announced that it will fire 80% of its employees in March if it does not receive extra funding.
On the other hand the country Greece's bloated public sector can still afford to pay some of its better connected employees 16 salaries per year. Those luckily to be employed by parliament are paid for 16 months work annually. At the other end of the spectrum tens of thousands often wait months or years to be paid wages owed.
Giorgos Papandreou has been working hard over the last week at the Davos World Economic Forum to try and persuade fellow Europeans and international economic markets that the his newly elected socialist government can reign in spending and raise more revenue. However, how much influence a system that his party has been instrumental in setting up and maintaining over the last 30 years is open to doubt.
For the last four decades both left and right have used the public sector as a way of gaining and maintaining voter loyalty by handing out jobs and contracts in return for political support. As a result the country's infrastructure has been manned not by the brightest or the best but the most loyal.
Entry and progress depend not on competence but on maintaining the myriad of personal, family and political connections that form the basis on any successful career in Greece.
With unemployment predicted to hit one million in 2010 social conflict and clashes between social groups unwilling to make sacrifices and a government unable to pay seem unavoidable. Already farmers have blockaded much of the country's transport network in order to demand one billion euros in funding and sweeping changes in agricultural policy.
www.demotix.com/news/235906/greek-economy-faces-possibili...
More views of Poverty Island built to mark the entrance to the Poverty Island Passage and to warn mariners headed to Escanaba from the dangerous shoals just off the south tip of the island.
Amongst chores beyond his years and poverty so unfairly struck upon him this boy is still thankful for what little he possesses.
spotted these rugby kids under a bridge in manila. they are so called rugby kids because they sniff the fumes produced by the rugby. rugby is a rubber cement used for sticking soles of shoes. on the far right of the photo one of the kids (squatting) is nonchalantly relieving himself
I don't like taking pictures of homeless folk.. in my defense, I took this blindly.. I saw a bunch of "chickens" adjusted the focus, lowered the camera and snapped it while I was walking.. I intended to aim more left. it wasn't until later I saw what I caught. I'm posting it because of the happenstance and because of that little american flag fluttering in the background.
This one tugged at my heart. Life is different in Thailand for two main reasons 1) they appear to have less stuff, 2) but they clearly have more joy. This man may be richer than many of us.
possiedo cose che quando le guardo viene il voltastomaco le guardo attorno a me dentro me in giro per le strade entrando in casa mentre il resto me lo fa notare io nego non capisco dove sono cosa sono?