The poorest people in the world—in pictures The Guardian

Many of us take what we have for granted. It is difficult to find someone who would be completely satisfied with my life and gratefully accept each new day. However, we often don't appreciate what you have, wanting more and more, while more than a billion people worldwide exist on $ 1 a day or less.

British newspaper the Guardian published a selection of photos of "the poorest people in the world." The causes of poverty are varied, but the difficulties these people face every day are very similar, the newspaper writes. In creating this project was attended by the founder of the international charity and the author Thomas Nazario together with the photographer, winner of the Pulitzer prize Rene Byer.





4-year-old Ana-Maria Tudor at his home in Bucharest. In the near future the authorities plan to evict her family from the only place that this baby could call home, and that the poor have to live on the street. The girl's father recently had surgery on my gall bladder, the result of an infection he received after surgery, it may not work and is constantly in need of expensive medications. In a squalid room in which the family lives, there is no sewage or running water.





70-year-old girlfriend from Bolivia dancing on the field after the potato harvest. It is their only source of income, and they rejoice in the knowledge that he gathered a great harvest.





A sea of people in the heart of new Delhi who run their business and do not notice a 13-year-old blind girl Hunua Begum and 10-year Nizamudin. Their father died 10 years ago, a 35-year-old mother suffers from asthma and cannot work, she also has another 6-year-old child, and Nizamudin hydrocephalus. Just begging helps them to somehow survive. And wheelchair girl a gift of one of the passers-by.





60-year-old FAI Fanna lost a leg in 1988, when it was blown up by a Claymore mine. He was a widower, and had 11 children. His house was scheduled for demolition because it is an unauthorized construction, and in this place are going to build a residential quarter.





Slums Spell in the North of India. 2-year-old Sangita suffering from the effects of malnutrition, while her 5 month old brother is asleep, pressed against the mother's breast. The girl sometimes rent out to the poor, so that they share the collected per day by begging. It's popular among poor Indians practice, when one child is sacrificed for the sake of the other.





Five brothers from the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Now they are in a shelter and I feel much better than few months ago when they were forced to live on the street. These boys from 5 to 12 years.





25-year-old Jestina Coco with his 5-year-old daughter Sattai. Jestina disabled and earns his living by begging and washing clothes. And daughter and mother suffer from the effects of malaria. They sleep in the hallway of the house where there is not even water and electricity.





After the death of his father, 9-year-old Alvaro Kalancha Cycle is engaged in cattle breeding. Early in the morning he expels a herd of lamas and alpacas grazing, and then run to school. In the evening he again pushes the cattle into the stall. Wool is the only source of income for his family. In an average year the family earns about $ 200.





Slatina, Romania. 31-year-old Viorica complains of stomach pain. Without medication, which the family simply has no money, she lives in constant pain. The house is built on public land, and in fact it can carry at any time. The house has no electricity, no running water.





8-year-old Fathi from the city of ACRA in Ghana, comes with the same as it, children to the dustbin of electrical engineering, to find something valuable and then sell for pennies. Tears is what gave her malaria, which she suffered several years ago.





27-year-old prostitute Labone is holding his year-old son, whose father is his client. After a few minutes she will return to his duties in a brothel in Bangladesh.





5-year-old Rudra and his 3-year-old sister Sukhanov. These children live in the slums of an Indian city Card and earn a living by begging. Recently their brother and sister died from malnutrition.





6-year-old Vishal Singh cares for a little girl in the South of new Delhi, while her mother went. Vesala lucky, it doesn't work and has the opportunity to visit a school for children from the slums.

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