The Beautiful Faces of the Extreme Poor
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Anne PrattNovember 2, 2014
Incredibly beautiful and touching!
KathyOctober 31, 2014
What Beautiful pictures! You truly captured the beauty in these people! They have a beautiful countenance on there faces and shows how hard there work and lives are. Thank you for sharing such beauty. I can not do much to help them but I will keep them In my prayers and you all that do as much as you can for them.
LaLauna BandmannOctober 31, 2014
Beautiful! So how much does it cost to build a home? Would donations help the couple rebuild? I visited Kenya through Meridian and saw great poverty there - but what a happy people. I served a mission in Chile and found poverty there. One's heart bleeds for these people. Then you see the spoiled attitudes of those who have so much. Poor and happy is my preference. Thank you.
Dr. Todd D. StongOctober 31, 2014
Quite wonderful photos. Thanks for placing a light on these humble people. I have for 19 years been a volunteer engineer, a party of one, for rural village water supply in Africa, Asia and Latin American. In recent years I have been working with 42 villages about Mexico's largest lake with water supply, wastewater treatment and how to grow fish in floating cages. All of my solutions are based on local material, local skills, no electric, no chemials, all biological and all via gravity. I can help.
Betty CrenshawOctober 31, 2014
Beautiful people! Beautiful photos!
Eugene OlsenOctober 30, 2014
Scott, in my opinion, this is your finest photo essay. I found the content very moving, and the photography was excellent. Spoken by a fellow photog.
PamOctober 30, 2014
Oh how I wish you could have brought simple solar cookers with you! Even in areas and seasons when sun is at a premium, solar ovens can work wonders and reduce the use of precious wood. Wonderful essay!
bob putmanOctober 30, 2014
Seeing the smiling children brings a smile to my face, the one picture of the boys with there arms around each other says so many things, i loved that picture, i cant thank you enough for going to these people and sharing what you had and bringing there lives to us.
bob putmanOctober 30, 2014
these are beautiful people, how i wish to God i could help them, i see so many feelings in there faces, i cant imagine the feelings in your hearts as you went from village to village, The Lord knows the feelings in my heart for them, and anyone who lives in poverty, I look to father in Heaven for the day we shall all live as one people where there shall be no poor, ZION, God bless these people, and thank you so much for showing these dear Brothers and Sisters to us, THANK YOU.
Keith EllisOctober 30, 2014
Scot, these are absolutely incredible images....every single one of them. Stunning! Moving and Inspriational! Thank you so much for sharing.
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