肯亞拾荒少女閱讀

   Dandora位於肯亞首都奈落比郊區,那裡有一座廣達30英畝的垃圾場,附近住了近百萬貧民,多數靠此垃圾場維生。在這貧民窟裡充斥著數不盡貧窮和無奈的故事。

   美國攝影師 Micah Albert以此為焦點,深入報導,譴責肯亞政府刻意忽視窮人的生存權。其中這張照片,讓他獲得「世界新聞攝影大獎」。這位以拾荒為生的年輕女人在垃圾山中找到一份雜誌,並坐在那裡閲讀。她對攝影師說,這是她在拾荒以外,能夠做的一些事情。

   這幅照片讓我想到世界上,確實有很多人,無論他們是成人或是小孩,每天都在為了生活,為了生存而奮鬥。生於這些貧窮、汙染的城巿,他們沒有選擇,只能一直這樣活下去。如果這刻我們不用在垃圾桶中拾雜誌閱讀,而是坐在舒適的家、辦公室裡,對著電腦,乃至拿著IPad一邊喝咖啡,一邊享受閱讀的話,除了心存「感恩」之外,我實在沒法想到更好的形容詞。

   珍惜我們擁有的一切,就算只是那些微細到我們平常難以察覺的幸福,對世界上很多人來說,卻是一輩子永遠無法達成的夢想。

   Micah Albert's image of a young woman reading in the Dandora dump site in Kenya. Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at Nairobi's Dandora dump, which spills into households of one million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she sometimes comes across. She even likes the industrial parts catalogs. “It gives me something else to do in the day besides picking trash,” she said.

   There are many people, no matter they are adult or child, have been struggle for living each and everyday, which is something we cannot imagine. Where they live are full of poverty, pollution, pain and suffering, however, they have no choice but to live with it. Cherish everything we have, even if it is so tiny that we haven't notice. As for many people in this world, it is the dream they can never be reached.

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