Sunday, August 30, 2009

Images of the Everyday: A Lesson in Gratitude

Cooking

Cooking is almost always done on a charcoal stove making meal preparation a time-consuming and tedious task.


Dishes

Dishes are, of course, always done by hand.


Laundry

Hand washing clothes is painstaking and annoying. Laundry machines are nonexistent so washing is always done by hand.

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And always hung to dry... drying clothes seen everywhere.


Security

Nice homes, as in not of mud and plain brick, must have barred windows...


... and high, secured walls.


ADA

This lucky man received a donated wheelchair; most of the disabled lean on large sticks to move themselves around or literally crawl on the ground.


Drainage

Without a modern sewer system, drainage and waste is a part of life.


Trash

Trash, trash everywhere. Kids play in it, livestock and poultry eat from it.



Play

Except for the occasional flimsy soccer ball or cloth doll, most kids play with what they find.


1 comment:

  1. I did how ever find the best bleach ever when I was in kenya, probably pure thats why but i used to love it. I see the same things when we are in Brasil too. Its world wide and yet no one realizes it.
    -h

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