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Photo:Travel Photography Scholarship 2012 entry-TPA Benowo,Rubbish or hope?

Carrying a bag full of waste on this old lady’s head accompanied by her own shade reflected in puddle and slippery road is very unique image; with the overloaded weight, she can walk calmly enjoying every step knowing this bag would be pondered in weighing location which located in the entrance and needs more than one hour walk from her location at that time.  Their struggle for life, dedication to their families, willingness to live in that slum area for funding the living, steadfast hardworking effort, and commitment in each family member to strive together facing the life problems warn the society to consider poverty which is also able to haunt them and also confront the sumptuous and high-priced city’s life style contrasting with this people life. Will the society or government provide them with better

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Carrying a bag full of waste on this old lady’s head accompanied by her own shade reflected in puddle and slippery road is very unique image; with the overloaded weight, she can walk calmly enjoying every step knowing this bag would be pondered in weighing location which located in the entrance and needs more than one hour walk from her location at that time. Their struggle for life, dedication to their families, willingness to live in that slum area for funding the living, steadfast hardworking effort, and commitment in each family member to strive together facing the life problems warn the society to consider poverty which is also able to haunt them and also confront the sumptuous and high-priced city’s life style contrasting with this people life. Will the society or government provide them with better

 

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