Pictures of Poverty

Sometimes, a pictures says more than numbers or words. Saying that 20 percent of the population lives in poverty does not depict the hardships those in poverty face.

The Daily Mail newspaper has taken some photographs of people living in one of the poorest counties in the US.

The Modern-Day Poverty in Kentucky

Here is another link showing faces of poverty in the US.

Such poverty exists in the US. We don't notice it, but the poor exist in every community. Here is a video of children going hungry in Iowa, a major food producer in the US, if not the world.

The situation in poorer countries is even worse. Here are some pictures of the marginalized poor in Bangladesh. These people have very little, if any, social safety nets to rely on.

Poverty numbers tell us whether the poor are getting better-off or worse-off, but they do not portray the human side of the story. These photographs and videos do, and it should always be remembered that when helping the poor, people should treat them with the dignity and respect of a human being.