trash acres ......food for thought....
Hi Amos,must say I had forgotten about places like that but being in India kinda makes you change your perspective of things for me those people and places were always just that and they didnt affect me.......after all they dont live near me...
Now am in a country where the nice complex I live in is surrounded by a slum and you know the funniest thing is "some crazy, totall y fired Indians in delhi are selling houses with lawns to get into complexes like this, why? it secure and feels more like you belong somewhere"........that really got me thinking you know...
also the fact that here this people are not just in Kibera, kawangware, mathare.........no they are everywhere ........as you sit in a rick they are standign next to you on th ehighway.
Guys live on the street...next to huge office complexes...and it not frowned up, its like what can we do..
It amazing when you think of the socio-dynamics that exist in a place like that and what impact it would have on the place and people to have it cleaned up .....
and still the consideration of if we dont then what?
Now am in a country where the nice complex I live in is surrounded by a slum and you know the funniest thing is "some crazy, totall y fired Indians in delhi are selling houses with lawns to get into complexes like this, why? it secure and feels more like you belong somewhere"........that really got me thinking you know...
also the fact that here this people are not just in Kibera, kawangware, mathare.........no they are everywhere ........as you sit in a rick they are standign next to you on th ehighway.
Guys live on the street...next to huge office complexes...and it not frowned up, its like what can we do..
It amazing when you think of the socio-dynamics that exist in a place like that and what impact it would have on the place and people to have it cleaned up .....
and still the consideration of if we dont then what?
posted by Phyllis M at 3:11 AM
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Being in India taught me alot. The greatest thing that i learnt was that every cloud has its silver lining. If us as africans can focus on our silver lining, we can achieve alot. I real richness in India and i found the poorest of the people in the same sub continent. If only the rich and the business owners can work together with the poor and job seekers, there can be some economic harmony in the communities.
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