All Blog Posts Tagged 'poverty' (3)

The government is trying to spruce up the image of the urban areas which visitors are going to see. But their plans include:

Moving poor from the streets and from illegal squatter camps… Continue

Think Bangladesh, and instantly the mind conjures up images of cyclones, floods and poverty. It is undeniable that Bangladesh is continually presented as a country of disaster to the rest of the global community. Nonetheless, to dismiss an entire nation as a hotbed of trouble and hopelessness only causes more damage. Bangladesh is in fact fighting to improve its economic status; the country still has much development potential.



I recently visited rural Bangladesh, and witnessed the… Continue

When I speak to most people about poverty I ask them where they think of when I say poverty. They say places like Africa and India, but very few people actually name places in the UK. I'd like to clarify that people in the UK are not by any means more important as those who live in other nations with poverty, but it is a very real thing in our country.



When people think of poverty, they think of someone in a shanty town with children who are very skinny and trying to get by. In this… Continue