by: iSwimiTravel
No shoes nor slippers
Walking six kilometers from home to school
Another six kilometers to go home from school
A one year old child barefooted eating a tomato
Young children selling river rocks to tourists
Adolescent children saying "Mister please buy rocks to help me"
Young boys pasturing zebus barefooted own by another person
Young people cannot go to college because parents just sell fruits
Young boy limping due to damaged leg with a wooden cratch made out of tree branch
No electricity at night
Clay homes with no bathrooms
Women washing clothes using dirty water from the river banks
Young children selling any small merchandise on the busy traffic roads
No potable water
Children dying early due to lack of medical help
Father died on the early age because of a disease
Many more...
These are just some of the many obvious signs of real poverty I've seen in my visit to Madagascar. Why do young children and the new generation have to suffer all the hardships that they did not do? Why?
Here we are and there are times in our life that we feel that something material is lacking and we feel incomplete, but in fact, we can survive without it. I will just think of these children in Madagascar and will not ask for more but be satisfied and be grateful on what I have and whatever circumstance I am in.
Poverty in Africa is real. Yes, perennial corruption in the government and socialism may be the root cause of real poverty but, again, why little children have to suffer from the effects. Life for them is so unfair!
Stop saying that I am poor! Go to Africa and you will see the real poverty.
You will see a real smile from a needy child without slippers even a tiny piece of bread when you hand it into their hands. They need our help!
Don't we say that we are "poor" because they are lacking this and that...Look at the fate of these African children and you will surely say "I should be grateful on what I have and I should not ask for more."
In Ampefy, Madagascar 11.22.12
One year Malagasy child without slippers and eating a tomato...now she has my zucchini bread...Ampefy, Madagascar 11.21.12
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