We have spent countless hours driving by bus throughout the streets, towns, cities, and villages of India. These are pictures I have gathered to try to show different areas. There is clearly no escaping the effects of extreme poverty and pollution. I'm mentally and emotionally exhausted, and we are only around halfway through our tour. Day in and day out of taking in what the Indian people live, work and survive day by day in has greatly impacted my life and changed me. These people don't know any other lifestyle, and it wounds me deeply. There are various organizations, around ten, that we have visited, that work around the clock to try to help as many people as possible to leave the poverty cycle and to give them hope. These organizations are not always looking for monetary donations. Sometimes it's as simple as showing you care and offering a skill, suggestion, or time to make even the smallest difference. The poverty cycle and impact of over 1 billion people living in one country not only impacts people, but also various animals, rivers and lakes, the environment and air quality. Throughout my time here in India, I have been coughing and blowing out black soot out of my nose. I can't imagine how the lack of air quality impacts the people who live here. It's definitely felt on a number of levels.
It's clear with these pictures that the poverty truly does impact everything. Just seeing the excessive amount of trash on the dirt roads, where normally grass would be grown, proves that poverty is the biggest problem.
ReplyDeleteWow, its sad to see people living in such poverty.
ReplyDeletePoverty is definitely keeping these people from improving their life.
ReplyDeletei wonder how long does it take them to finish their creation, which looks very interesting
ReplyDeleteI think it's too dangerous to be driving motorcycle in the middle of the street to does people and animals.
ReplyDeleteLooking through the pictures is heart breaking because they really live worst then us and all the pollution that is horrible.
ReplyDeleteThe cows are everywhere!!!! I think the cows are planning something.....
ReplyDeleteDid you touch the cows? The cow looks bony and looks like starving, did you try to feed it?
ReplyDeleteI think it's good for the cows to roam around their own rather than being contained in a building where they await to be slaughtered for their meat here in America for the big meat processing companies
ReplyDeleteWere the cows harmful? Did you have to wear gear such as masks when you walk in the highly polluted areas?
ReplyDeleteHow did it feel being around all these cows?
ReplyDeleteI always knew that they considered cows sacred but why and when did this first come about ?
ReplyDeleteThe animals look very sick...the environment looks very polluted as well.
ReplyDeleteWere you uncomfortable being in such a highly populated area?
ReplyDeleteDid you or any of the other tourists get sick when arriving to India?
ReplyDeletewhen noone is on the street it looks like India has been through a recent war
ReplyDeleteit seems so polluted is india's government doing anything about that?
ReplyDeleteWas it dangerous over there did you guys run into any kinds of trouble when you were there ?
ReplyDeleteWhy are the houses built so close together?
ReplyDeleteI see alot of car but very poor- roads. The car there must break down all the time how much would the car cost to get fixed or would they would just find other ways to get around?
ReplyDeleteDid you get scare of the cows in the streets? What was your thought when you saw the street and living condition in India?
ReplyDeleteIts very eye opening to see how they live day to day and what they see around them
ReplyDeleteIt must be hard to live in that environment with all that pollution
ReplyDeleteIts seem like poverty its a big problem and it shows us how poverty impacts the environment ?
ReplyDeleteim grateful for what i have in america because this opens my eyes to how huge poverty is.
ReplyDeleteI can tell poverty is all over India based on a few of these pictures.
ReplyDeletetheir poverty rate is out of this world its really sad to see.
ReplyDeleteThe animals look like their starving
ReplyDeleteThe ground is all dirt no concrete or nothing
ReplyDeleteWas it emotional seeing all that poverty? And was it fun riding in one of those taxis?
ReplyDeleteWhat would happen if someone rides a cow and did you see people riding other types of animals like horses? Did you see any regular cars other than them old looking cabs? Where are the gas stations at and how much does gas cost, I think its cheap because in global I learned India was a big producer of oil and gas. I would have expected a lot of people to be riding on bikes not motorcycles. Is their a type of DMV and licenses you must have or road regulations? You better answer every question I got omm.
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