Poverty: Sad pictures...
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These pictures has been circulated on the Internet for quite a while already. But recently, I've just received them again in my mail box.
From time to time, we'll all complain that 'money no enough' or how tough it is living in SG. But looking thru these pictures, it made me stop and wonder about how much 'wealth' I have and how fortunate I really am.
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nvr seen so sml sz!! all skin n bones!
poor kids... so sad...
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why dont the photographer give them some food before taking photos?
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He can save one or two or ten for today, tomorrow.. mayb a week.. But can he really save them?Originally posted by InnoHippo:why dont the photographer give them some food before taking photos? -
sigh...Karma...
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haiz.....the world is unfair.
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It's like the starfish story. The young woman can throw one back into the ocean, and the next one, and the next one.Originally posted by DriftingGuy:He can save one or two or ten for today, tomorrow.. mayb a week.. But can he really save them?
Can one person really make a difference? Yes, one person can make one difference. Through channels such as this forum, we gain awareness. Then what do we do next? For a start, you can go to http://www.thehungersite.com daily. Each day you click, sponsor companies provide humanitarian aid for people, animals and even the environment.
How simple is that and what have you got to lose? -
Depressing...sad but veri real..... must really count our blessing to be living in SG -
the website very complicated...click where?
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Click on this picture at the website :Originally posted by nightzip:the website very complicated...click where?
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sad.
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Good job!Originally posted by erijazz:Click below
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G8 has time and again provided help to the world's poorest nations. but the root cause is the governments of these poor countries. no amount of money or food can save them unless they stop the civil wars and co-operative with G8.
mankind is to be blamed for all this.
power craze, selfishness..... -
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what happens when we click many many times?
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You can't do that cos the limit is one per day. I think they recognise your IP address or something.Originally posted by shinta:what happens when we click many many times?
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there's also a b.reast cancer site but as the word is censored, i can't link it. -
guess who caused the poverty?
these countries weren't poor... the people weren't poor...
they had everything they needed.. until the introduction of MONEY...
that's when everything they had, became "worthless" and everything they had which sustained them, were sold to get something called MONEY..
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can link...
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haiz ..............
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I think you misunderstood what i meant.. Whether or not the photographer gave food to that child or not is not as important as the photo he took.. He can feed this child.. mayb take him home for adoption.. but hes only 1 person..Originally posted by ^spidee^:It's like the starfish story. The young woman can throw one back into the ocean, and the next one, and the next one.
Can one person really make a difference? Yes, one person can make one difference. Through channels such as this forum, we gain awareness. Then what do we do next? For a start, you can go to http://www.thehungersite.com daily. Each day you click, sponsor companies provide humanitarian aid for people, animals and even the environment.
How simple is that and what have you got to lose?
But by taking this photo and showing it to the world he can galvanise hundreds of thousands of people into action.. -
I get what you mean, I know you feel for those suffering children too. It really is very depressing to know that fellow human beings suffer like that. Hope the wealthier countries will really help develop the underdeveloped ones.Originally posted by DriftingGuy:I think you misunderstood what i meant.. Whether or not the photographer gave food to that child or not is not as important as the photo he took.. He can feed this child.. mayb take him home for adoption.. but hes only 1 person..
But by taking this photo and showing it to the world he can galvanise hundreds of thousands of people into action.. -
Care to elaborate? I'd always thought money is just a medium of exchange for goods and services, didn't know it had such devastating effects. Greed maybe?Originally posted by the Bear:guess who caused the poverty?
these countries weren't poor... the people weren't poor...
they had everything they needed.. until the introduction of MONEY...
that's when everything they had, became "worthless" and everything they had which sustained them, were sold to get something called MONEY..
think about it... -
imagine an african family, living without money, they have a plot of land, they have a few animals, crops growing on the land, the man has a wife and a few children... the family lives on what they can grow and gather..
now money comes in... the "medium of exchange" is forced upon them and they cannot barter anymore...
suddenly they need to use money.. and in order to get money, they start to sell their crop, their animals, even their land... but someone comes in and buys it all up because of the inequality of the distribution of money... usually someone with power...
so, now, you have, a man, with a pile of banknotes, with nothing else..
his farm, his animals, his land, everything is gone... taken over, sometimes by sheer force.. for money...
this man and his family, suddenly become destitute when before the introduction of money, they had all they needed...
this is a simplistic view of what happened.. what actually happens is something like this.. but with a lot more things thrown in...
were they "poor" before? they were, by our standards but they lived well and proud...
are they poor now? definitely!
the introduction of money to some, caused a lot of misery...
and you don't even have to factor in Greed into the equation for the above to make sense!Originally posted by ^spidee^:Care to elaborate? I'd always thought money is just a medium of exchange for goods and services, didn't know it had such devastating effects. Greed maybe?