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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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its so easy for anyone to sit back and view beautiful landscapes and forget that they are also places of great struggle for those that live there.
The poor are often airbrushed out of the travel books and brochures, or treated as interesting novelties by tourists, it take someone who knows the life to report it, and make it seen.
And it doesn't need to be so: the country has oodles of oil and gas reserves and huge amounts of cash out of it.
But it's all being used in crap that doesn't address the real problems: hunger, disease, lack of education.
You got it in one: I try to show not just the "nice" side - which it undoubtedly is. For those who understand where I'm coming from, it becomes obvious in some of the shots where the problems really are.
Last year I met a stash of school kids in one of the "resorts" I visited. Will look up a photo of them and post it later. They were absolutely gorgeous!
They were selling little turtle rings to help collect money for their school to buy books and pencils and pens.
I bought one ring - which I always use now - for about 10 times what they were asking, half to the kids and half to the school teacher.
Next time I go there I'm taking a bagfull of notepads and boxes of pens and pencils with me to leave behind. It just puts a knot in my throat when I see things like that. These folks remind me of the true sense of the expression "true grit".
But poverty has nothing to recommend itself, and the poor themselves show that the way out of poverty is to give something back, as they do when they can.
I'd love to send some pencils pens or anything that I can, is there any way i can do that nuno ?