When I listen to the word poverty I use to think about homeless or poor people who live in the street, people that don’t have a house or food to cover basic needs. Seeing these images I realize that poverty is widespread and you can find it in lots of places in the world. In our group, we decide to focus especially on children poverty and I choose this picture because differently from all the others it makes me smile: when I see it I feel affection.
In the picture we can see three small kids carrying drums, they are going to fill them with water and they probably run because water is a scarce product where they live. This photo could have been taken in a street of Pakistan or India, it makes me think this because the street is not asphalted, it’s surely a country of the third world. The only vehicle that appears in the picture doesn’t seem like the cars that we have here. The three kids are wearing baggy and worn-out clothes and the buildings makes me think that it is a village with poor resources. This photo makes me think about the innocence that kids have lots of times in front of many situations, their faces do not reflect sadness or worry in the sense that they are going to collect a basic need, it seems that they are playing and enjoying themselves. Probably the hapiness and cheerfulness they transmit is because they don’t know another reality away from where they live and they are really glad with what they have. In our eyes, we who live in a well-being society, the image may transmit poverty because unintentionally we compare it with the way we live but truly these kids are happy with the things they have and probably they don’t have lots of toys but they may have strong values and an inner beauty that lots of people that live in the first world lack. I’m sure that if one of these kids, for one reason or another will finally live in a first-world country they would value and love things more than people who always live in a rich country and are used to having so many things without effort.
This picture is clearly an example of poverty but these three kids do not seem poor inside them I think poverty depends on your own values. On one hand you can live in a country, with a house and a nice car and feel poor and on the other hand, you can live in a small and poor village but your values may be health, family and happiness and these kids may be richer than we are.
MY CHOICE
