This is a picture I found on Weibo(which is kind of twitter, but not exactly the same). This children is apparently a chinese child who is maybe 5 or 6 years old. The description below the picture is what is junk food to us is exactly the birthday surprise for the child. We can not do anything the help, what we can do is spread the picture let more people know.
In this picture, the children is pretty dirty. His clothes is not his size. The room he sitting in is very dirty, dark, messy and full of dirty things. The food in the big bowl in front of the little child is instant noodles. I think the price in China of this kind of noodles is around 3 Yuan, 0.5 dollars which is very cheap. Parents do not want children to eat instant noodle because it is junk food, but it is a birthday present for the little boy in the picture. The face of the boy is very red and I don't think the red is a healthy red. I think it is caused by being in the cold wind for a to much time. His face is sad and looking at something to someone, maybe is his parents. Apparently, the family of him is pretty poor and can not afford a better life.
The interesting point is not only how poor the life of the child and his family is, but also how the description. It is written we can not do anything to help.
With the lives of Chinese people getting better and better, most people in the big cities in China tend to be blind to all the lives to other people. They just enjoy their own rich and wonderful life and they do not anything about how some poor people is suffering from right now. The description said we can not help but the truth is we can help. We neglect how other's lives look like and we are told that we can not do anything to help.
Indeed, large amount of children are starving due to poverty and people should do something to help. But I think the problem is that there isn't an efficient path for people to do so. The credit of the most famous charity in China was seriously crashed recently. In order to help, people should do something more than simply spread a picture around the Internet. They need to establish a better way to help. This reminds me that a friend of mine who really cares about poor children and tried to establish an charity himself. He and I once went to teach in a primary school in a poor village in mountain areas. That makes me truly feel that I was helping those children. I believe taking some real actions to help those children is really important.
ReplyDeleteActually, it is a bid problem in China and other developing country. China and Indian are both in developing, and their annual increase are more than 8%, which is a huge one compared to 3% in U.S.A. However, the problem behind the quick development is the huge differences between the people's wealth from the wealth and the poor. Some one is wealth enough to have groups of luxuries but someone like in the image can only have instant noodles as birthday celebrated meal. He is young but have to burden too much.
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