Fear of the future, lack of education and no childhood; also, in the worse occasion: death or child born death. All these words came to my mind when I wonder about the girls in the Picture. Should kids lose their right to play, since they must work to survive?

 

This Picture was taken in a garbage dumps in some place of India. This country has the 60% of their population living by approximately 3,10$ per day. Which contrast with the richest 10% in India, that controls 80% of the nation's wealth. Although, according to an Oxford study, since 2005 more than 300 million people had escape from extreme poverty, India is one of the biggest country in the world with more population in dangerous poverty. That means that the majority of the people have a lack of resources. The most dangerous aspect in the poor population of India are famine and unclear water.

In the foreground of the photo I can see a pair of girls that must not reach twelve years old. Both are caring a sack that could be full of resources, that maybe have find in the garbage dumps where they are, such as some food, water or even some device with value. Some meters away from the girls there’s an adult carrying a sack five times heavy than the ones of the girls. On the top right of the picture there are two persons with two different tools. One is driving a kind of bulldozer to stack up all the rubbish. However, the other one is taking care of their cows. Probably, these people leave in a settlement, in huts, close or even in, the garbage dumps. On the background of the picture I see the other way around, people living in buildings with tap water and probably more resources than the people of the photo. I think that these girls, many of times wonder: “If I had been born there, I would have had a future”.

 

To sum up, India is one of the most countries that have a huge difference between their population, due to economy. This picture shows that perfectly. On one hand people are not able to satisfy their basic needs such as tap water, food or education; and one the other hand bigwigs are increasing their goods exponently. Moreover, is a country where having two girls in the same family is a tragedy. Countries must help those places to give the chance to play to all the kids!

 

Wrote by: Arnau Marco