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Your photo essay “The Poorest of the Poor” is very impactful, and opened my eyes wider to the povertous reality in Haiti. Specifically, three points I am greatly affected by are your description of hunger in Haiti, your visual of looking into a child’s eyes and your analogy of a village’s support.
Firstly, I am impacted by your description of hunger in Haiti stating, “The younger children have been eating dirt, small rockets and even goat feces to fill their bellies. The youngest child is swollen and her hair is red and brittle as a result of severe Kwashiorkor malnutrition and they all have worms and other parasites,” and this really contrasts to how most of us describe hunger in Canada. To us, hunger means not eating all day, but to them hunger means not eating for days and suffering diseases from malnutrition. We really do take our food for granted, so donating at least one can, or maybe only a dollar for Haiti should be no problem for us. We live in a world where on one side, people live in luxury, while on the other sides people are struggling just to get their basic needs. It’s a harsh …show more content…

Children are innocent and cannot live without the guidance of someone older, so no matter where we are in the world Haitian or Canadian, we all have the same human instinct which brings us all together. In fact, just us being of the human race brings us all together. No matter where we are, we must all work together as a family to help each other live. As Marshall Mcluhan once said, “There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” We cannot rely on a captain to solve poverty so that the poor people can live, we all need to put our efforts into helping each other

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