Blog 10

This past week, the main discussion was directed at the book "Planet of Slums." For many of us, the idea of living in a slum is not something that we can fully understand. We have seen images and descriptions, but psychologically we cannot understand the idea of never being able to leave the slum, because that is our home. For many of us, not having air conditioning, a pool, cable TV, and a game system constitutes as being poor (all things I did not have growing up). Our idea of global poverty is usually based on what we see in our own country.

I was especially interested in the garbage city in Cairo, known as Manshiyat Naser. I was amazed at how this is the "normal way of life" to children born in this city. For those of you that have not seen specific images, I have two posted below.


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