Temporary Food

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one”

-Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody… I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. A young child eats alone inside their shanty in the shanty town of Baseco in Manila, Philippines. Photo by:Luis Liwanag

This photo represents a lot of things, but one thing's for certain, the main theme of this is basically poverty. As we see children come and go of age we wish a lot of things for them like having a good education, good nutrition and well of course, good parents, but as we look through today's society's growing masses of poverty we are deemed to foresee a greater amount of belay among what we see as a deteriorating future for our world. Basically we are to blame for this obscenity and we as individuals who have been given good education and proper living have all the luxuries and better yet give a little something back to help our society which is in need. Scraping one inch of bread is enough to feed a starving soul.

Imagine living inside a box, with nowhere else to go, no food to eat and the rain pouring real hard on you. How do you feel? Isn’t it horrible? Yet millions of people worldwide are living in these feeble conditions. It’s very piteous to think and accept the truth that we, Filipinos, belong to third world countries, who are really struggling hard to survive. Very often and as visible as we can see the many poor people wearing any piece of clothing just to have something to cover up their naked bodies, dig through trash to get food, and some others decide to be criminals just to take big amounts of money thinking that it would mean their last resort for them to live.