“A child scrapes the leftovers from his meager lunch at a refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. More than a million Rohingyas, originally from Myanmar, are living without basic amenities in government camps like Kutupalong.”
Source: Sushavan Sandy, Nurphoto, Zuma Press, February 21, 2017, wsj.com
Live & Learn 
A sad reality..
LikeLiked by 3 people
1,000,000’s and 1,000,000’s times over.
LikeLiked by 1 person
True..
LikeLike
Agreed true
LikeLiked by 1 person
heartbreaking
LikeLiked by 1 person
And bam 💥 my heart breaks.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep. And lingers.
LikeLike
Our world is so terribly out of whack….,
LikeLiked by 3 people
It is….
LikeLike
Sometimes, we just forget. Thanks.
LikeLiked by 1 person
We do Van. It was a bell banging for me….
LikeLike
and sometimes we think we have it bad….a much needed dose of unkind reality….
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yes, I felt exactly the same way.
LikeLike
I will never understand how we can be so cruel to one another.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep. Incomprehensible Frank.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
Let’s count our blessings … and keep an open heart!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, thanks Horty.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Worked on these issues last year, visited two countries with 5 huge refugee camps in each. Heartbreaking. Millions of kids grow up under these conditions. The numbers are disheartening http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html
LikeLiked by 2 people
So painful…thanks for sharing Helen. It must have been an experience that you could not forget, your visit to the refugee camps.
LikeLiked by 1 person
This is so sad, especially as this has been going for years. It is a crisis all over the globe. Thank you David for brining it to our attention and to you Helen for the link to the harsh reality.
Numbers can never show the impact on our fellow human beings. When we touch it directly, it opens our eyes and hearts to others who are just like us. 🙏
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is beyond sad Val. As Roseanne said above, it was a punch in the gut for me.
LikeLiked by 1 person
As I sit here eating my sandwich and blackberries and drinking nice clean water.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, I know that feeling Darlene. I do.
LikeLike
Ugh…such a punch in the gut. So much of this. It feels endless. Here, too, in our own land, the heartbreak. We do what we are called to do – help out in our local food pantries, write checks, make sandwich after sandwich after sandwich, which is what our Unitarian Universalist group has been doing for many years. At some level, I just cannot understand.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s it Roseanne. A punch in the gut. That’s exactly how I felt when I saw this shot at 3am.
LikeLike
And yes, we do what we can do.
LikeLike
Everyday I recognize my immense abundance when I hear and see the pain in this world. Each of us can do our part to balance a very unbalanced world. 🍀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, our little part. Yes.
LikeLiked by 1 person
thank you David.
we should never, just close our eyes. I know no one ‘wants’ to see this. its brutal. its messy. it is despair at the deepest level. But we can each do one small thing to help, someone, somewhere.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes Debi. That’s it. One small thing, and not get swamped by the “global” issue.
LikeLike