Poverty aesthetic

I stare at this image a lot. I ask myself how . . . and why . . . and feel so helpless in making a difference. I know a lot of people care. I know a lot more people are living at the door's edge a paycheck away from homelessness on the streets. And that's a scary place to be. It's a scene each and everyone of us could end up in given a wrong set of circumstances or decisions.

When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government’s delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I was struck by how much the international development landscape is changing. Where governments were once the primary source of development assistance, today the private sector, civil society, academia and donors are all working together to discover, fund and scale innovative solutions to longtime development challenges.

I think it is almost impossible to realize an up-scale world without poverty. Even if we change the appearance of the houses in slums, it will not change the fact of poor. However, I really hope that this could become true.

Many people in Russia’s “northern capital” do not live in standard apartments, but in palaces, or rather former palaces, known as kommunalki, or...

I am Kumander Sator, recently residing at North Cotabato, Mindanao Island in the Philippines. I am a vlogger, a faith healer and a book writer. I come from a poor family. And here in the area where I live, there are many indigenous people living who are experiencing extreme hardship especially now during the pandemic. Due to frequent lockdowns, indigenous people have difficulty bringing their products to the town markets. I see that instead of eating three times a day they only eat once or…