Submitted by four photographers:
Dan Perets Njiena Tchouake (Cameroon), Margaret Masaba (Kenya), Sudip Bhar (India) and Amar Jajja (Pakistan).
False Promises
(by Dan Perets Njiena Tchouake, a runner-up in the Stories for our Time Competition.)
“Our everyday experience leads us to the question of what can be changed. The answer to this question does not seem obvious because there are so many things that we want to change.I want to bring one particular problem to your attention. After 53 years of independence, the inhabitants of the city of Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, still suffer from a lack of water on a daily basis. Sometimes weeks and months pass during which people have no access to running water. This is the case, despite the fact that Cameroon has an abundance of water resources.
People yearn for this situation to change. They are tired of false promises.
We Need to See a Change
(by Margaret Masaba)
“This is an image of the main street in my home town Mombasa, Kenya. The entire street is filled with filth. We need to see a change and we need to see something positive around us.
Load
(by Sudip Bhar)
“This image was taken at Munsiari In the Kumaon Himalayas in India. The village women gather dry straw and grass every day and carry it home for their cattle. With that heavy load of 20 to 25 kg they walk over 10 km at an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet.I think this needs to change. The Government should provide eco-friendly transport to carry the heavy load and relieve these beautiful village women of their burden.
Forgotten Pain
(by Amar Jajja)
“Floods, earth quakes, typhoons and all natural disasters bring a painful turn in life for all victims. But when it comes to third world countries, it is even more disastrous. Not only are their lives turned, it is turned upside down.These pictures show the ‘worst floods’ which hit Pakistan in 2010 after the heavy, unprecedented monsoon rains. It affected a quarter of Pakistan’s 180 million-population. Unaffected individuals and wealthy international organizations gave millions of dollars for the rehabilitation of the victims who had to leave their homes. Some of them received tents to live in, others moved to live under a roof of leaves and life went on.
Today, many of them still live in ‘camps’ with no proper facilities. The adults can try to forget and move on in order to survive, but the children still stare at their flooded homes. Their homes are shattered, devastated and empty and the remaining bits will be washed away with the next flood.
Now this is what needs to change! Giving away alms for temporary settlements is not sufficient or sustainable. They need ongoing attention, they need to be taken care of and they needs their pain to be felt by others, not to be forgotten!
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