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velocista (895) 2008-04-13 9:53

olá, imagem que deixa qualquer um sem palavras. obrigado por partilhar!
pedro

kleeross (159) 2008-04-13 10:04

Great picture of a very bitter reality. I appreciate your note and agree with anvallanius in regards to the things we can often take for granted. TFS!
Regards,
Kevin

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Koala1 (112) 2008-04-13 11:28

Poor little kids, they are innocent. they don't deserve something like this. really is shocking.

Melina (20) 2008-04-13 11:48

Beyond all photography criteria, this is one of the most down to earth and impressive pictures I have seen... when there´s nothing pretty about it.

Sad but true, war is always in the way of food ditribution inspite of it´s price, and it gets worse by knowing that there´s more than enough food for everyone in this planet (it´s around 3000 kcal per person daily!!)... We just need to get it to the right places in time overcoming the obstacles, how?

Food safety... just a dream?

Leilani (1385) 2008-04-13 16:52

yes Jose, sadness and shock.

Heart wrenching that an innocent child can endure such hardship. Mind numbing that we ignore problems like this. It puts into reality what our priorty should be, humanity.

Not saving the animals over humans, nor keeping up with the Jones. We should be trying to save other lives. Thank you for putting into perspective our little "issues" that we may encounter daily and believe in our spoilt heads is a problem... No, they are not problems. Situations like the one in this picture is the problem. These are the type of things we need to be thinking about in the forefront of our minds... Not the materialistic and selfish thoughts that seem to overtake our mind so easily.

Thank you for this jolt of awakening this late night.

Kind Regards, Leilani

     xuaxo (6830) 2008-04-14 5:29

Olá José,
Não consigo acrescentar mais nada ao que já foi escrito aqui.
F.

litiancai (1048) 2008-04-29 19:49

Hi Jose,
It's one of those pictures you don't want to look at, but just can't help doing it (a guilty concious maybe?)

In the west we live our lives to excess and get angered by the smallest things that bother us in our societies, all the time not needing for anything, but desiring everything. People like this don't have the privilege of being able to desire everything, as their lives are consumed by meeting their needs, not their wants.

As for the comments of Polonaise below, I must say I'm a little shocked! I'm not necessarily disputing the facts of what he says, but I think he needs to consider a little further back in time and remember how Africa got to this stage. I'm sure Africa would have been very different had it not experienced hundreds of years of it' people being treated like lesser human beings, making them slaves in their own countries to the European minority rulers of the UK, France, Portugal and the Nederlands, and exploiting all of their natural wealth for the benefit of foreign individuals, whilst the African people received none of it.

As for Africa potentially being the biggest food producer, I have no idea if this is true, but what I do know is that whilst this may be be true for the continent, it's certainly not true for individual countries as some of them are in incredibly unfortunate global positions with limited water availability and poor soil. Hundreds of years ago this probably wouldn't have been too much of a problem, but once the European powers had come along with their map, a pencil and a ruler all of a sudden it becomes difficult to move to another more fertile area as it's now a different country.

Jose, many thanks for sharing this photograph
Regards
Lee

cdmonson (4301) 2008-05-15 7:05

Hi Jose:

Thank you for sharing these pictures, and thank you for your note. I agree wholeheartedly with Leilani that people should be our priority over animals, comfort, the environment or any otherwise good cause that we might have. How to help these countries though? I still don't know the answer to that.

Enough philosophizing and politicizing though. Critiquing a photo seems somewhat inappropriate in this case, but I do have to say that I like that you've only included the hands and arms of the aid worker, so that the focus is on the child and the theme is receiving help from above. Thanks again for sharing.

Clark

Booz (14343) 2008-06-24 0:23

Thank you for this picture - picture of human patology.. we are talking about cosmos, about prices of oil.. and in this same time in the many places of this same world somebody die from hunger..
Regards...
Tomek

     dasilva (141) 2008-10-29 3:02

Olá José,

"aprender sobre o mundo através da fotografia" infelizmente não é só ver lindas paisagens.
Acho importante não colocar uma foto choque sem adicionar um comentário. Fez isso muito bem.
Obrigada por partilhar sua experiência.

Martine

papadimitriou (272) 2008-12-05 6:03

My congratulations

Have a Great weekend
Yiannis

madredeus (494) 2009-04-18 14:37

"Excuse me Mr.
Can't you see the children dying?
You say that you can't help them,
Mr. you're not even trying.
Excuse me Mr.
Just take a look around.
Oh, Mr. just look up and you will,
You'll see it's coming down.
Oh, excuse me Mr. but I'm, I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.
So, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.
it's a Mr. like you, puts the rest of us to shame." (song by Ben Harper)

Solidarity for all.

manatee (4642) 2009-09-14 13:49

ola jose:

This kind of storys hurt me so much, if there is something than I can help I will be so happy to do it, Im a physical therapist, I have a master, speciality adn one year of my PhD. Im sure I have a mission in my life to help in some way andI would like to do somehitng about it so if you know the way I would like to do something about it

Thank you

Elias