


HELP
HELP
HELP
DO WE SEE BEYOND OUR DAY TO DAY?
Why they are on the street? They are alone? They have family? How long time they be in this situation? Will they be able to return to normal life? It is important not to judge people if you don’t know their life story because they have difficulties the whole time they are on the street, lack of hygiene and resources limits many things. Could you put yourself in his situation for a few minutes?
This photo was taken in Budapest and in it we can see a man next to a shopping cart. In the foreground there is a man who doesn’t look good for his way of dressing, for his posture and for the conditions of how it is seen him. He is wearing a lot of clothes, he is wearing a blue sweatshirt with a hood and under the hood he wears a green cap, over the sweatshirt he wears a beige jacket, the trouser who is wearing is brown, the shoes are black and he wears some brown gloves. All these clothes are dirty clothes, second hand etc... This man is sitting over a cushion and a plastic box. Next to this man there is a cart with all the things he needs to survive. Inside the shopping cart we can see that there are two jackets, an umbrella. And all the rest things he must have taken or people have given it to him. The man with the position he is in and in the conditions in which he lives he sees a sad man who must haven't one to help him, a difficult situation. The photo is on the street and he must live every day in these conditions without family and without people to love him.


Finally, I think poverty is very unfair and sometimes it affects people who should not be affected. Grief, pain, suffering, misery, ruin etc... All these adjectives come to my mind when I see these photos. It is very easy to ask for more than we can have but it’s harder to thinking with all these people and how little they have and how little they ask. We who are lucky to have a family that loves us, an education, to be able to have a dish every day over the table, a house to live in, water to wash up etc ... We learn to value more what we have at home but the opportunities are everywhere, you just need to find it.
by Olga Franch




