I thought these series of photos were stunning. It was difficult not to get too heavy handed with quotes and statistics. I hope I succeeded.
Now I have to go to work so I can pay for my kid's bedroom, electricity, cell phone, breakfast, volleyball fees, homecoming dress, transportation, laundry, water, medical care and internet access and I am really grateful I can do that.
Now I have to go to work so I can pay for my kid's bedroom, electricity, cell phone, breakfast, volleyball fees, homecoming dress, transportation, laundry, water, medical care and internet access and I am really grateful I can do that.
Alyssa, 8 yrs old
Kentucky, USA
Roathy, 8 yrs old
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Kaya, 4 yrs old
Tokyo, Japan
The financial distance between the richest and poorest countries was 3 to 1 in 1820 11 to 1 in 1913 35 to 1 in 1950 44 to 1 in 1973 72 to 1 in 1992
Bilal, 6 yrs old
Wadi Abu Hindi, The West Bank
Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear. - Nelson Mandela
Prena, 14 yrs old
Kathmandu, Nepal
Jaime, 9 yrs old
New York, USA
Anonymous, 4 yrs old
Rome, Italy
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty. Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. - Pope Francis
The poverty rate in China fell from 85% in 1981 to 27% in 2012. This is a per capita rate focused almost exclusively in urban areas. Globally, the poverty rate during the same time has fallen less than 10%.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
157 million Chinese live on less than $1.25 a day and 902 million live on less than $5 a day.
17.8 million children have lost at least one parent to AIDS. 10 million children have lost both parents. By 2015 it will be 25 million.
You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable. - Princess Diana
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. - John W. Whitehead
Per Protection Project, 250,000 to 500,000 children in Brazil are forced into prostitution. Actual numbers are impossible to determine.
I hope the book gives a glimpse into the lives some children are living . . . a chance to reflect on the inequality that exists, and realize just how lucky most of us in the developed world are. - James Mollison, Where Children Sleep
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Dong, 9 yrs old
Yunnan, China
Anonymous, 9 yrs old
Ivory Coast
Alex, 9 yrs old
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable. - Princess Diana
Indira, 7 yrs old
Kathmandu, Nepal
According to the Nepal Child Labor Report, 1.6 million children are forced into work despite the fact that child labor is illegal in the country.
Rhiannon, 14 yrs old
Darvel, Scotland
Erlen (pregnant for the third time), 14 yrs old
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Per Protection Project, 250,000 to 500,000 children in Brazil are forced into prostitution. Actual numbers are impossible to determine.
Ryuta, 10 yrs old
Tokyo, Japan
I hope the book gives a glimpse into the lives some children are living . . . a chance to reflect on the inequality that exists, and realize just how lucky most of us in the developed world are. - James Mollison, Where Children Sleep
2 comments :
wow. very moving. thank you
Thanks for reading and commenting! The stats are stunning. It is part of a series of three photo collections and I hope I'll get the other two put up pronto. The stats I found to go with the last one are just incredible.
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