Poor life

Poverty In America

It's hard out there for people living on the lower end of the income spectrum.

Gift cards for homeless peopl

Matthew 26: 10-11. “When Jesus understood it, He said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she tath wrought a good work upon Me. For ye have the poor always with you; but Me ye have not a…

There are times I'm critisized for taking informal portraits or street photography images of the poorest of the poor. I get it. It's something that many feel is opportunistic and wrong. I would like to let those critics know that it's not easy for me to drum up the courage to approach these unfortunate souls and ask to take their picture. It's much easier to walk past the homeless, pretend not to see them and avoid making eye contact. My hope and reason for imaging them and sharing the…

When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government’s delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I was struck by how much the international development landscape is changing. Where governments were once the primary source of development assistance, today the private sector, civil society, academia and donors are all working together to discover, fund and scale innovative solutions to longtime development challenges.

Photo listed in Street Photography. Shot taken in Mauritius with NIKON D7100.

About a fifth of mankind still live in abject poverty, dispute the numerous national and global efforts during the past years on the first target of the Millennium Development Goals which aimed to decrease extreme poverty by one-half by the year 2015. Abdou Touray, Programme Specialist – Poverty and MDGs at the United Nations Development Programme country office in The Gambia said as of 2011 the poorest 40 percent of the world’s population account for 5 percent of global income and the…

Poverty in other countries is not comparable to the poverty in the US. As we see in this picture how families have to live in slums and even bathe in dirty water every day of their lives. According to UNICEF more than 22,000 children die from poverty each day. Pictures like these allow people to understand and get a sense of what it is like to truly live in poverty.

Searching for old cans to sell. From Asadullah Khosty 12-8-2015

When young people in state care leave to make their own way in the world, too many end up homeless - The Age Online

Where does the money that we all work so hard to make go at the end of the week?

Some think that being poor is simple. You don’t have enough money to buy a lot of stuff, so you’re forced to buy less stuff. But that’s not really how

Many of the Philippines' desperate citizens dwell in whatever makeshift shelters they can ...

A few facts Homelessness seven hundred thousand homeless in America: Single men comprise 44 percent of the homeless, single wom...