How to live on one dollar a day
Many of us take what we have for granted. It is difficult to find a person who would be completely satisfied with his life and gratefully accepted every new day. At the same time, we often do not appreciate what we have, wanting more and more, while more than a billion people around the world exist on $1 a day or even less.
The British edition of The Guardian published a selection of photos "The poorest man in the world." The reasons for their poverty are varied, but the difficulties that these people face every day are very similar, the newspaper writes. International charity founder and author Thomas Nazario collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer René Bayer to create this photography project.
1. 4-year-old Ana Maria Tudor in her home in Bucharest. In the near future, the authorities plan to evict her family from the only place that this little one could call home, and these poor people will have to live on the street. The girl's father had recently undergone gallbladder surgery, and as a result of the infection he got after the operation, he is unable to work and is constantly in need of expensive medicines. In the squalid building in which this family lives, there is no sewerage or running water.
2. 70-year-old friends from Bolivia dance on the field after harvesting potatoes. This is their only source of income, and they rejoice that they have gathered a large harvest.
3. A sea of people in the center of New Delhi, who run about their business and do not notice the 13-year-old blind girl Hunupa Begum and the 10-year-old Nizamudin. Their father died 10 years ago, and the 35-year-old mother suffers from asthma and cannot work, she also has another 6-year-old child, and Nizamudin has hydrocephalus. Only begging helps them somehow survive. And the girl's wheelchair is a gift from one of the passers-by.
4. Fai Fanna, 60, lost his leg in 1988 when he hit an anti-personnel mine. He is a widower and has 11 children. His house is planned to be demolished, as it is an unauthorized building, and a residential area is going to be built on this site.
5. Charam slums in northern India. Sangita, 2, suffers from the effects of malnutrition while her 5-month-old brother sleeps snuggled into his mother's chest. The girl is sometimes rented out to beggars to share the alms collected during the day. This is a popular practice among poor Indians when one child is sacrificed for the well-being of another.
6. Five brothers from the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Now they are in a shelter and feel much better than a few months ago, when they were forced to live on the street. These boys are 5 to 12 years old.
7. 25-year-old Jestina Coco with her 5-year-old daughter Satta. Jestina is disabled and earns a living by collecting alms and washing clothes. Both daughter and mother suffer from the effects of malaria. They sleep in the hallway of a house that doesn't even have water or electricity.
8. After the death of his father, 9-year-old Alvaro Kalancha Kisle is engaged in cattle breeding. Early in the morning, he drives out a herd of llamas and alpacas to pasture, and then runs to school. In the evening, he again drives the cattle into the stall. Wool is the only source of income for his family. On average, a family earns about $200 a year.
9. Slatina, Romania Viorica, 31, complains of stomach pains. Without medicines, for which the family simply does not have money, she lives in constant pain. The house was built on state land, and in fact it can be demolished at any time. The house has neither electricity nor running water.
10. 8-year-old Fati from the city of Acre, in Ghana, comes with children like her to an electrical dump to find at least something valuable and then sell it for pennies. Tears are what gave her malaria, which she suffered a few years ago.
11. 27-year-old prostitute Labone holds in her arms her one-year-old son, whom she gave birth to from her client. In a few minutes, she will return to her direct duties in a brothel in Bangladesh.
12. 5-year-old Rudra and his 3-year-old sister Suhani. These children live in the slums of the Indian city of Charad and earn their living by begging. Recently, their brother and sister died of malnutrition.
13. Vishal Singh, 6, takes care of a little girl in south New Delhi while her mother is away. Vishal is lucky that he does not work and has the opportunity to attend a school for children from the slums.