Children and ICD

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The issue here is that children all around the world are not given their basic human rights. These kids do not have access to food, water, education or healthcare. In order to survive they have to do manual labour.  Or they are forced into becoming child soldiers and commit acts of brutality at a young age, which leaves them traumatized.  Young girls are forced into marriage with elderly men. This is concerning for our future tomorrow. Can you imagine what such traumatized children would grow up to be? Children who have experienced such abuse themselves go on to become perpetrators of such abuse onto others. Not only that, how are we expecting poverty to end? If we don’t do anything about it now, it will continue to grow more and more. Issues as such don’t resolve on their own, we the people have to take initiative to do something about it. The reason I used these images is because its shows these children in their worst state, sick and fragile to the point when I myself was unable to look at the images for too long. They kick in that natural instinct of gruesomeness. However, I think it is essential that people see these types of images, so that they can become aware of the harsh reality of the third world countries. Sometimes we get so immune to hearing stories of poverty like it’s a normal thing. My goal here is to elicit an emotional response of shock when people look at these images, so that they don’t take it as something they hear and see everyday.  I believe that there is more beyond the pictures, there’s a story it tells of a never-ending cycle.