Bringing Awareness to Global Poverty Crisis Through Images

The #endpoverty hashtag challenge, a partnership between National Geographic Your Shot and the World Bank Group, asked photographers to show what #endpoverty meant to them. How are people helping other people live better lives? How are people helping themselves? What does resilience look like?

Making people care is one powerful way to fight poverty with . Thirty years ago, images of mass starvation in Ethiopia prompted a global response to address the problem. Today, a projected 700 million people live in extreme poverty, trying to feed and clothe their children in very adverse conditions.

Millions more live just above this poverty line but still face daily struggles to meet their families’ basic needs and to avoid falling even further into poverty. These numbers are too big to imagine, but a photo can offer a glimpse of another person’s reality and raise awareness.

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Source & Copyright: World Bank Group