Poverty In Africa

Last Friday during our CID lesson, our teacher showed us a photograph. It was a picture of an extremely skinny boy with a vulture in the background. Then he told us to think of one word to describe this photograph. Our group came up with the word "suffering", due to the fact that the boy is so skinny and weak and the fact that the vulture seems to be waiting for him to die so that it can eat him. Our teacher then gave us a minute to search about this picture on the internet. We found out that this photograph was taken in Africa and the boy was actually going to a feeding centre to get food. However, the boy had so little energy and the vulture appeared behind him, resulting in the photographer taking that photo. We chose the word "suffering" because the boy seems to be in great pain and suffering because he is starving and weak. The vulture also emphasises on the fact that  the boy seems to be on the verge of death as most of us know that the vulture is famed for eating animals as food. The thought that there is still poverty and people that do not have any money or food saddens me. I feel that we should help countries that have poverty by donating food and daily necessities or educating them on how to earn a living and basic knowledge about hygiene, farming and more. This way, people who live on poverty can learn and know how to live their lives.